Possessed: A Genealogy Of Black Women, Hauntology And Art As Survival

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dc.contributor.advisorFord -Smith, Honor
dc.contributor.authorJordan, Anique Yma Jashobacen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-25T15:55:38Z
dc.date.available2018-07-25T15:55:38Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractAn auto-­‐ethnographical portfolio, Possessed comprises three photography installations and an essay. I employ family archives and self-­‐portraits to understand the exceptional humanity of black women. Black women in the diaspora are positioned squarely in a fixed liminality– the in between space of hybridity and fusion where we are both invisible and hyper visible. In the liminal space, a ghost emerges which I explain as a haunting– the theory that the memory of violence and trauma can haunt. These ghosts help us to survive by allowing us to create art. Art herein is understood as any form of creation. We create things that protect us; we create ideas that we teach to our children that enable them to survive; we create possibilities of the future and new memories of the past. The haunting then is a source of profound invention. Carnival is an example of the haunting aesthetic that comes from this space. I use mimicry and costume found in carnival aesthetic to create autobiographical writings and performance based photographic works – Salt: A Still Performance, Sixth Company Battalion and Blue Birth Beloved.en_US
dc.identifierMESMP02692
dc.identifier.citationMajor Paper, Master of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/34846
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subject.keywordsSurvival
dc.subject.keywordsArt
dc.subject.keywordsHauntology
dc.subject.keywordsLiminality
dc.subject.keywordsCarnival
dc.subject.keywordsSelf-portrait
dc.subject.keywordsAuto-thnography
dc.subject.keywords(in)visibility
dc.titlePossessed: A Genealogy Of Black Women, Hauntology And Art As Survival
dc.typeMajor Project

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