Nourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art

Ryan, Hannah; Wolff, Lesley A.

Save Cite Share

Description: Nourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art

BOOKNourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art

Hannah Ryan (Editor), Lesley A. Wolff (Editor)

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31718

A revelatory exploration of the food, feminisms, and visual culture of the global Caribbean

Food is more than what we eat; it nourishes us. For women of the global Caribbean, the evocation of food makes visible histories and ideas that remain obscured: domestic labor, community and care, generational knowledge, cultural memory, artistic expression, and acts of resistance. In this interdisciplinary and comparative volume, scholars and artists engage with foodways through decolonial and intersectional feminist lenses, addressing the resonance of these themes in contemporary art. As such, they represent new scholarly and creative interventions on Caribbean and Caribbean-diasporic contemporary art in a global context.

This anthology harnesses the potential of food to create, negotiate, and analyze the visual languages emergent from a region grappling with political occupation, tourism, and ecological crises. Contributors lend a vital perspective into feminisms, the global Caribbean, tropical visuality, cookery, and consumption and feature discussions of such artists as María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Renluka Maharaj, Joiri Minaya, Victoria Ravelo, and Tania Bruguera.

“This exciting volume represents a significant cross-over of food studies, feminism, and art making while charting a new direction to cut across the art of this region.”—Katherine Manthorne, Graduate Center, City University of New York

“One of [the book’s] many strengths is its use of archipelagic thinking, which broadens our understanding of what constitutes the Caribbean. The connections between chapters make for interesting, non-linear reading, ideal for a digital environment, that heighten the volume’s thrust to emphasize crossings and networked relations.”—Marsha Pearce, University of the West Indies

This born-digital book is available exclusively on the A&AePortal.

Author

Hannah Ryan (Editor), Lesley A. Wolff (Editor)

PublisherYale University Press

EISBN 9780300272819

Illustrations 107, plus 5 videos

Print Status in print

Publisher (born-digital)

Access to this content is only available to subscribers. If you are at an institution that currently subscribes to the A&AePortal, please login to your VPN before accessing the site. If you have already purchased an individual subscription, please sign in to your account to access the content. Learn more about subscriptions.

Get access

List of illustrations

Untitled (Facial Hair Transplants)
Alchemy of the Soul, Elixir for the Spirits
(bush) Tea Services
Collapsed Soul
Hidden in Plain View
Hidden in Plain View
Hidden in Plain View
Hidden in Plain View
Interior of a Boiling House
At the behest of Creative Time Kara E. Walker has confected: A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant
Sugar/Bittersweet
Hidden in Plain View
Shervandaze Smith being held after hacking Columbus statue in front of the Government House in Nassau
Proposal for artistic intervention on the Columbus statue in front of the Government House in Nassau
Cloakings with aloe and sansevieria pattern design on the left
Encubrimiento pattern design
Malian hunter's shirt
Botanical illustration of peacock flower (flo pavonis)
Aesthetics y Politics
The Embrace
Underpass at the intersection of Duarte and Paris Streets
Prepared botella at Botánica Santa Marta
Ma
Conjurer
Gulab
Market Women
Market Day
Umbrella Woman
Untitled
Three Women at a Table with Fruit
Fruit Piece
Banana Bowl Fruit Stand
A Short History of the Banana and a Few Recipes for Its Use
Chiquita Banana’s Recipe Book
Chiquita Banana’s Cookbook
Vitrina Banana Republic
Banana Republic: Guide to Travel and Safari Clothing
La niña de Guatemala
Contaminaciones
El peso de la culpa
Le bœuf écorché
How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare
Untitled (Death of a Chicken)
Destierro
Mangaaka Power Figure (Nkisi N’Kondi)
Displacement
Mandelbrot Fractal Island
Sticky
Basin Rock Cakes
Displaced Signifier
Burning I
Burning II
Wink Sink I & II
Smooth Slick Spills
Shake
My Cards
Marassa Twins
Untitled (sumando líneas) for Pecolia Warner
Can I Borrow a Cup of Sugar?
Marché Salomon, still image
Chiquita Brands International Logo
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
El banano emplumado
En el bosque
Deshijar
Making Guáyiga bread: Pedro holding the guáyiga plant before removing the leaves
Making Guáyiga bread: starch coming out of the ground root
Making Guáyiga bread: Pedro grinding the root
Making Guáyiga bread: on the second day, the dried starch is mixed with coconut
Making Guáyiga bread: Marileyda, surrounded by her sons and daughters, while hot hydrated starch is mixed with the coconut and the rest of the dried starch
Making Guáyiga bread: Marileyda rolling the dough with the banana leaves
Making Guáyiga bread: Little Pedro in the foreground playing with us while the rest help Marileyda with the meal
Making Guáyiga bread: freshly baked cholas from the oven
Vibration Cooking, cover
The Seeds We Keep: Carter dying textiles
The Seeds We Keep: Carter dying textiles
The Seeds We Keep: Carter cooking on her outdoor hearth
The Seeds We Keep: fish cooking on the outdoor hearth
The Seeds We Keep: Carter bathing in the red earth of her family's land
The Seeds We Keep: Carter bathing in the red earth of her family's land
The Seeds We Keep: Carter in mourning with earth movers in background
The Seeds We Keep: Carter in mourning with earth mover tracks
Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor on the cover of Jet
High on the Hog: Gabrielle E. W. Carter harvests greens from her garden for a community feast
Tablescape adorned with a framed family photo meant to make space to feast, to honor, and to remember
High on the Hog: Poulet rouge hens cooked over coals on Gabrielle E. W. Carter’s cinderblock oven
Portrait inside The Red Womb
The Red Womb
The Red Womb
The Red Womb
The Red Womb (performance view)
The Red Womb (performance view)
Tree of Knowledge: Conversations with a Snake
Tree of Knowledge: Conversations with a Snake, detail
Tree of Knowledge: Conversations with a Snake, detail
Tree of Knowledge: Conversations with a Snake, detail
The Dark Grotto
The Dark Grotto
The Dark Grotto
The Dark Grotto, detail
The Dark Grotto (performance view)
The Sunlit Garden
The Sunlit Garden, detail
The Sunlit Garden (performance view)
The Sunlit Garden (performance view)

Free

Contents

Hannah Ryan (Editor), Lesley A. Wolff (Editor)

Nourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art

Contents

Author

Hannah Ryan (Editor), Lesley A. Wolff (Editor)

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31719

Read

Free

Acknowledgments

Hannah Ryan (Editor), Lesley A. Wolff (Editor)

Nourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art

We wish first to thank Patricia Fidler, our editor at Yale University Press, for understanding our vision and championing Nourish and Resist from our initial interaction...

Author

Hannah Ryan (Editor), Lesley A. Wolff (Editor)

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31720

Read

To Transverse and Transgress: Feminist Artistic Praxis and Foodways of the Global Caribbean

Hannah Ryan and Lesley A. Wolff

Nourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art

Ripe with meaning, food conveys potent and embodied expressions of care, memory, labor, exploitation, community, and resistance. For women the evocation of food makes visible histories and...

Author

Hannah Ryan and Lesley A. Wolff

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31721

Chapter subject tags:Food--Caribbean Area--HistoryArt, Caribbean--21st centuryWomen artists--Caribbean Area--21st centuryFeminism--Caribbean Area--21st centuryVisual culture--Caribbean Area--21st centuryCampos-Pons, Maria Magdalena, 1959-Colonialism--Caribbean Area--HistoryResistance (Philosophy) in artMendieta, Ana, 1948-1985Decolonization in art

Access to this content is only available to subscribers. If you are at an institution that currently subscribes to the A&AePortal, please login to your VPN before accessing the site. If you have already purchased an individual subscription, please sign in to your account to access the content. Learn more about subscriptions.

Get access

Free

Part I. Transhistorical

Hannah Ryan (Editor), Lesley A. Wolff (Editor)

Nourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art

Part One

Author

Hannah Ryan (Editor), Lesley A. Wolff (Editor)

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31722

Read

1. Bittersweet: Caribbean Diasporas, Transnational Feminisms, and Commodity Consumptions in Victoria Ravelo’s Hidden in Plain View

Elizabeth S. Hawley

Nourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art

During a monthlong residency at Locust Projects (Miami’s longest-running alternative art space) in 2021, Victoria Ravelo produced Hidden in Plain View, a series of molten sugar sculptures. Ravelo started thinking through the possibilities of sugar as a material for her art when she was confined to her...

Author

Elizabeth S. Hawley

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31724

Chapter subject tags:Ravelo, VictoriaSugarcane industry--Caribbean Area--HistoryWomen and domestic labor--Caribbean Area--HistoryCuban American women artists--21st centuryFeminism--Caribbean Area--21st centuryColonialism--Caribbean Area--HistoryFood--Caribbean Area--HistoryVisual culture--Cuban--21st centuryResistance (Philosophy) in artSlavery--Caribbean Area--HistoryCampos-Pons, Maria Magdalena, 1959-Walker, Kara Elizabeth

Access to this content is only available to subscribers. If you are at an institution that currently subscribes to the A&AePortal, please login to your VPN before accessing the site. If you have already purchased an individual subscription, please sign in to your account to access the content. Learn more about subscriptions.

Get access

2. How to Wrap a Colonizer

Jennifer Baez

Nourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art

On October 9, 2021, a Bahamian man named Shervandaze Smith hacked the right arm and leg off the statue of Christopher Columbus in Nassau while...

Author

Jennifer Baez

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31725

Chapter subject tags:Colonialism--Caribbean Area--HistoryWomen and gender roles--Caribbean Area--HistoryPolitical art--Caribbean Area--21st centuryArt, Caribbean--21st centuryWomen artists--Caribbean Area--21st centuryVisual culture--Caribbean Area--21st centuryTropical plants--Caribbean AreaTextile design--Caribbean AreaMinaya, Joiri, 1990-Queer culture--Caribbean AreaIndigenous peoples--Caribbean AreaDecolonization in art

Access to this content is only available to subscribers. If you are at an institution that currently subscribes to the A&AePortal, please login to your VPN before accessing the site. If you have already purchased an individual subscription, please sign in to your account to access the content. Learn more about subscriptions.

Get access

3. What She Would Have Said: A Conversation with Renluka Maharaj

Natasha Bissonauth

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...

Author

Natasha Bissonauth

PublisherYale University Press

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

Access to this content is only available to subscribers. If you are at an institution that currently subscribes to the A&AePortal, please login to your VPN before accessing the site. If you have already purchased an individual subscription, please sign in to your account to access the content. Learn more about subscriptions.

Get access

4. Agriculture, Autonomy, and Aesthetics: Black Women and Markets in the Caribbean

O’Neil Joseph

Nourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art

African and African-descended women in the Caribbean have long been known for their role as food producers. In regard to the Caribbean past, Lucille Mathurin Mair, the pioneer of Caribbean women’s history, argues that...

Author

O’Neil Joseph

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31727

Chapter subject tags:Afro-Caribbean women in artMarkets--Caribbean AreaArt, American--Caribbean influencesFood--Caribbean Area--HistoryWomen artists--Caribbean Area--21st centuryWomen and domestic labor--Caribbean Area--HistoryDickinson, Anna-MariaWomen and gender--Caribbean Area--HistorySlavery--Caribbean Area--HistoryColonialism--Caribbean Area--HistoryWomen, Black, in art--Caribbean Area--HistoryProduce trade--Caribbean Area--HistoryTropical fruit--Caribbean Area

Access to this content is only available to subscribers. If you are at an institution that currently subscribes to the A&AePortal, please login to your VPN before accessing the site. If you have already purchased an individual subscription, please sign in to your account to access the content. Learn more about subscriptions.

Get access

5. Pulling Back the Peel: Uncovering the History of US Imperialism and Domesticity in Images of the Banana

Shana Klein

Nourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art

In 1875 a photographer captured three US women sitting closely together consuming fruit around a table (fig. 32). The sitter at...

Author

Shana Klein

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31728

Chapter subject tags:Food industry and trade--United States--HistoryFood--Caribbean Area--HistoryBananas in popular cultureColonialism--Caribbean Area--HistoryVisual culture--Caribbean Area--21st centuryArt, Caribbean--21st centuryBarrios, Moisés, 1946-Tropical fruit--Caribbean Area--HistoryWomen consumers--United States--19th centuryBanana tradeCookbooks--United States--19th centuryHousewives--United StatesUnited Fruit Company

Access to this content is only available to subscribers. If you are at an institution that currently subscribes to the A&AePortal, please login to your VPN before accessing the site. If you have already purchased an individual subscription, please sign in to your account to access the content. Learn more about subscriptions.

Get access

Free

Part II. Transgeographical

Hannah Ryan (Editor), Lesley A. Wolff (Editor)

Nourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art

Part Two

Author

Hannah Ryan (Editor), Lesley A. Wolff (Editor)

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31729

Read

6. Dirt as Resistance: Abjection and Exile in Tania Bruguera’s Work

Katherine Mato

Nourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art

The earth feeds and nourishes us, both physically and spiritually. Fertile soils participate in generating bountiful harvests. The phrase “being grounded” is often used to denote a sense of presence and connectedness. However, the perception of dirt across the West remains largely negative, with many viewing it as an unclean and undesirable substance. Dirt found on the exterior of...

Author

Katherine Mato

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31731

Chapter subject tags:Bruguera, Tania, 1968-Colonialism--Caribbean Area--HistoryGeophagyPerformance art--Caribbean area --20th centuryKongo (African people)--Rights and ceremoniesPolitical art--Caribbean Area--21st centuryCuban American women artists--21st centuryMendieta, Ana, 1948-1985

Access to this content is only available to subscribers. If you are at an institution that currently subscribes to the A&AePortal, please login to your VPN before accessing the site. If you have already purchased an individual subscription, please sign in to your account to access the content. Learn more about subscriptions.

Get access

7. Taming Taste: The CaribBasin Recipe Cards

Amy Yeminne Kim

Nourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art

This project brings together two separate and contrasting geographical regions, inquiry into the medium of photography and a joy of cooking, all in a series of recipe cards. With these cards, I activate a space that connects Caribbean presence with the oil fields of the Permian Basin of Texas. The CaribBasin Recipe Cards are designed as a boxed set of twenty-four four-by-six-inch printed...

Author

Amy Yeminne Kim

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31732

Chapter subject tags:Formulas, recipes, etc.Slavery--Caribbean Area--HistorySugarcane industry--Caribbean Area--HistoryEnvironmentalism in art--21st centuryArt, American--Caribbean influencesKim, Amy YeminneFood--Caribbean Area--HistoryDecolonization in art

Access to this content is only available to subscribers. If you are at an institution that currently subscribes to the A&AePortal, please login to your VPN before accessing the site. If you have already purchased an individual subscription, please sign in to your account to access the content. Learn more about subscriptions.

Get access

8. “Food Is Cultural Memory”: An Interview with María Elena Ortiz

Hannah Ryan and Lesley A. Wolff

Nourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art

On the afternoon of January 21, 2022, Nourish and Resist editors Hannah Ryan and Lesley Wolff met virtually with curator and writer María Elena Ortiz to discuss their mutual interests in contemporary art, curating, women-centered foodways, and Caribbean heritage...

Author

Hannah Ryan and Lesley A. Wolff

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31733

Chapter subject tags:Food--Caribbean Area--HistoryFeminism--Caribbean Area--21st centuryVisual culture--Caribbean Area--21st centuryArt, Caribbean--21st centuryWomen artists--Caribbean Area--21st century

Access to this content is only available to subscribers. If you are at an institution that currently subscribes to the A&AePortal, please login to your VPN before accessing the site. If you have already purchased an individual subscription, please sign in to your account to access the content. Learn more about subscriptions.

Get access

9. Ecofeminism and Bananas in Contemporary Art: Victoria Cabezas, Rachelle Mozman Solano, and Celia Irina González

Blanca Serrano Ortiz de Solórzano and Juanita Solano Roa

Nourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art

The image of a racialized woman wearing a blue dress with large frills and a fruit hat—traditional attire worn by Black women in Bahía,...

Author

Blanca Serrano Ortiz de Solórzano and Juanita Solano Roa

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31734

Chapter subject tags:Women artists--Caribbean Area--21st centuryFood--Caribbean Area--HistoryVisual culture--Caribbean Area--21st centuryEcofeminism in artArt, Caribbean--21st centuryBanana tradeTropical fruit--Caribbean Area--HistoryCabezas Fica, Victoria del PilarMozman Solano, RachelleGonzález, Celia Irina

Access to this content is only available to subscribers. If you are at an institution that currently subscribes to the A&AePortal, please login to your VPN before accessing the site. If you have already purchased an individual subscription, please sign in to your account to access the content. Learn more about subscriptions.

Get access

Free

Part III: Transgenerational

Hannah Ryan (Editor), Lesley A. Wolff (Editor)

Nourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art

Part Three

Author

Hannah Ryan (Editor), Lesley A. Wolff (Editor)

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31740

Read

10. Guáyiga Bread and the Preservation of Culinary Heritage

Comalo

Nourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art

Guáyiga bread is one of the main foods of the indigenous peoples of the insular Caribbean. Despite colonization processes, the bread today survives in communities across the region, particularly in what we now call the Dominican Republic. Two of the communities where this culinary tradition persists—Yaguate and Guáyiga, in San Cristóbal and Santo Domingo Norte,...

Author

Comalo

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31735

Chapter subject tags:Cooking, CaribbeanFood--Caribbean Area--HistoryVisual culture--Caribbean Area--21st century

Access to this content is only available to subscribers. If you are at an institution that currently subscribes to the A&AePortal, please login to your VPN before accessing the site. If you have already purchased an individual subscription, please sign in to your account to access the content. Learn more about subscriptions.

Get access

11. The Seeds, the Roots, the Body, the Dinner Party, and the Recipe: Revaluing the Culinary Griot

Sophie Alexandra Cook

Nourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art

Gabrielle E. W. Carter’s ever-evolving artistic and activist practices resist definition. She weaves stories across a variety of mediums and disciplines, blending the documentation of family lore and ancestral agri/cultural knowledge with empowered acts of self-representation and community engagement. She has been described as a preservationist, a filmmaker, a writer, a...

Author

Sophie Alexandra Cook

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31736

Chapter subject tags:African American cooking--HistoryAfrican American Women artists--21st centuryAfrican Americans--Agriculture--HistoryAfrican Americans--Oral historyArt, American--Caribbean influenceCarter, Gabrielle E. W.

Access to this content is only available to subscribers. If you are at an institution that currently subscribes to the A&AePortal, please login to your VPN before accessing the site. If you have already purchased an individual subscription, please sign in to your account to access the content. Learn more about subscriptions.

Get access

12. The Crystal Efemmes: Forbidden Foods

Vanessa Centeno and Robyn LeRoy-Evans and Cristina Molina and Ryn Wilson

Nourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art

Forbidden Foods Dinner Parties were part of a larger project called The Fall, wherein dinner guests reimagined the Western creation story of the Garden of Eden in all of its abundance and without the so-called fall of man ever occurring.

Author

Vanessa Centeno and Robyn LeRoy-Evans and Cristina Molina and Ryn Wilson

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31737

Chapter subject tags:The Crystal EfemmesFood--Caribbean Area--HistoryVisual culture--Caribbean Area--21st centuryFeminism in art--United States--21st centuryPerformance art--United States--21st centuryArt, American--Caribbean influence

Access to this content is only available to subscribers. If you are at an institution that currently subscribes to the A&AePortal, please login to your VPN before accessing the site. If you have already purchased an individual subscription, please sign in to your account to access the content. Learn more about subscriptions.

Get access