Natasha Bissonauth
Natasha Bissonauth is an assistant professor of visual art and art history at York University, Toronto.
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3. What She Would Have Said: A Conversation with Renluka Maharaj
Natasha Bissonauth
Description: Nourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art
Nourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art
A visual artist working in Colorado, New York, and Trinidad and Tobago, Renluka Maharaj (b. 1966) is motivated in her aesthetic encounters with archival fragments by a desire not only to exhume stories of indenture but to foreground the women who have held them, both then and now. In her series Pelting Mangoes, for example, food becomes a conduit that braids childhood memories in the...
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Natasha Bissonauth
PublisherYale University Press
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Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31726
Chapter subject tags:Indentured servants--Caribbean Area--HistoryWomen--Portraits--Caribbean Area--21st centuryCaribbean American women artists--21st centuryVisual culture--Caribbean Area--21st centuryWomen artists--Caribbean Area--21st centuryFood--Caribbean Area--HistoryMaharaj, RenlukaColonialism--Caribbean Area--HistoryTropical fruit--Caribbean Area--HistoryResistance (Philosophy) in artFolklore--Caribbean Area--History