Women Filmmakers of the African & Asian Diaspora: Decolonizing the Gaze, Locating Subjectivity

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IN CREATING THE text of Women Filmmakers ofthe African and Asian Diaspora: Decolonizing the Gaze, Locating Subjectivity, I am deeply indebted to the work of many writers and filmmakers, including Bill Nichols, N. Frank Ukadike, Mbye Cham, Claire Andrade Watkins, Teshome Gabriel, Kobena Mercer, David Nicholson, Clyde Taylor, Mark Reid, Homi K. Bhabha, bell hooks, Renato Rosaldo, Chandra Mohanty, Jacqueline Bobo, Gloria Gibson, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Pratibha Parmar, Zeinabu irene Davis, Julie Dash, Ngozi Onwurah, Safi Faye, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, B. Ruby Rich, Amy Taubin, Michele Wallace, Toni Cade Bambara, Greg Tate, Ana L6pez, Judith Mayne, Manthia Diawara, and Teresa de Lauretis. Sincere thanks as well to Linda Ray Pratt, chair of the Department of English of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, for her continuing support of my work. I am also grateful for the assistance of Brian Zillig and the staff of the Interlibrary Loan Service, Love Library, at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, for their help in securing many reference materials, and to the staff of Women Make Movies, Inc., who made available research materials and still photographs on many of the artists discussed here, so that I might better discuss their lives and careers. I also owe a debt of gratitude to the staff of the Black Film Archive at Indiana University for their assistance. Finally, I sincerely thank Wheeler Winston Dixon, Oyekan Owomoyela, Maureen Honey, Joy Ritchie, Kate Ronald, Alpana Knippling, and Tony Williams for their discussions and advice on this volume. WOMEN FILMMAKERS OF THE AFRICAN AND ASIAN DIASPORA ...