Liminal spaces
Subtitle: migration and women of the Guyanese diaspora
By: edited by Grace Aneiza Aligrace
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781783749898; 9781783749904; 9781783749911; 9781783749928
Subjects: Immigrants; History; Women; Biography; Femmes; Biographies
Description: Liminal Spaces is an intimate exploration into the migration narratives of fifteen women of Guyanese heritage. It spans diverse inter-generational perspectives - from those who leave Guyana, and those who are left - and seven seminal decades of Guyana's history - from the 1950s to the present day - bringing the voices of women to the fore. The volume is conceived of as a visual exhibition on the page; a four-part journey navigating the contributors' essays and artworks, allowing the reader to trace the migration path of Guyanese women from their moment of departure, to their arrival on diasporic soils, to their reunion with Guyana. Eloquent and visually stunning, Liminal Spaces unpacks the global realities of migration, challenging and disrupting dominant narratives associated with Guyana, its colonial past, and its post-colonial present as a 'disappearing nation'. Multimodal in approach, the volume combines memoir, creative non-fiction, poetry, photography, art and curatorial essays to collectively examine the mutable notion of 'homeland', and grapple with ideas of place and accountability. This volume is a welcome contribution to the scholarly field of international migration, transnationalism, and diaspora, both in its creative methodological approach, and in its subject area - as one of the only studies published on Guyanese diaspora. It will be of great interest to those studying women and migration, and scholars and students of diaspora studies. -- From publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Open Book Publishers website; viewed on 2020-10-14).
Table of contents: title: Part I:; title: Mothering Lands  -- Grace Ali -- 1.; title: Surrogate Skin: Portrait of Mother (Land)  -- Keisha Scarville -- 2.; title: Until I Hear from You  -- Erika DeFreitas -- 3.; title: Electric Dreams  -- Natalie Hopkinson and Serena Hopkinson -- Part II:; title: The Ones Who Leave ... The Ones Who Are Left  -- Grace Ali -- 4.; title: The Geography of Separation  -- Grace Ali -- 5.; title: Transplantation  -- Dominique Hunter -- 6.; title: Those Who Remain: Portraits of Amerindian Women  -- Khadija Benn -- Part III:; title: Transitions  -- Grace Ali -- 8.; title: So I Pick Up Me New-World-Self  -- Grace Nichols -- 10.; title: Memories from Yonder  -- Christie Neptune -- 11.; title: A Trace; title: Evidence of Time Past  -- Sandra Brewster -- Part IV:; title: Returns, Reunions, and Rituals  -- Grace Ali -- 12.; title: Concrete and Filigree  -- Michelle Joan Wilkinson -- 13.; title: A Daughter's Journey from Indenture to Windrush  -- Maria del Pilar Kaladeen -- Postface:; title: A Brief History of Migration from Guyana -- Grace Ali