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Queens in Antiquity and the Present: Speculative Visions and Critical Histories

by Patricia Eunji Kim
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781350380882
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
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  • Pages: 336
  • Original Price: USD 130.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 454 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Ancient / General, History / Ancient & Classical, and Ancient & Classical

This interdisciplinary edited volume explores the notion of queenship as it has manifest from antiquity to the present, in contexts ranging from political acts to art production. Featuring the work of scholars, educators, curators and artists, this book gathers temporally and geographically distinct ideas about queenship into a single discursive space. Invigorating the conversation around powerful historical women and their legacies, the contributors discuss 'queenship' as a concept with contemporary urgency-from North America to Africa, and Europe to Asia-foregrounding critical methodologies and creative interventions that address the gaps within archives and current cultural and socio-political representation.

Although traditional narratives present queens of the ancient Mediterranean world primarily as the wives, daughters and mothers of kings, such as Semiramis and Cleopatra, the ways in which royal women wielded power-whether directly or indirectly-were actually multivariate, highly nuanced and culturally specific. The current contributions featured in this volume are concerned with teasing out the modern assumptions that have heavily influenced interpretations of gender norms and power dynamics in antiquity. In addition to re-examining primary sources, this volume scrutinizes the historiographies, methodologies and stereotypes that have shaped knowledge production and popular imagination over the course of hundreds and even thousands of years. As such, contributors present different kinds of receptions and speculative articulations of historical queenship, thus forging new paths forward for reconstructing and imagining queenships from antiquity to the present.

Kim, Patricia Eunji: - Patricia Eunji Kim is Assistant Professor at New York University, USA, and Senior Editor and Curator-at-Large at Monument Lab. She is author of The Art of Hellenistic Queenship: Bodies of Power (forthcoming) and co-editor of The National Monument Audit (2021) and Timescales: Thinking Across Ecological Temporalities (2020).

Tchaplyghine, Anastasia: - Anastasia Tchaplyghine is Guest Curator at the Cincinnati Art Museum, USA, and Registrar for the University of Pennsylvania's Iraq Heritage Stabilization Program at Nimrud and Nineveh, USA. She is co-editor of A Wonder to Behold: Craftsmanship and the Creation of Babylon's Ishtar Gate (2019).

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