In this study of the Akan diaspora, the author demonstrates how this cultural group originating in West Africa both engaged in and went beyond the familiar diaspora themes of
matronage, resistance, and freedom.
Furthermore, the author is prone to turgid and feminist prose: "denarratizes the discourse," "female cultural producer," "paintress," "
matronage." Apart from exhausting the reader, the language has the unintended consequence of circumscribing Sirani's considerable achievements within an exclusively female world.
(67.) Heidi Strobel, The Artistic
Matronage of Queen Charlotte
Major collections of Impressionist art at the Art Institute of Chicago, and of Russian and German modernist art at Yale, as well as the original collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum were each underwritten, McCarthy claims, by women's new ability in the early-twentieth century to provide independent "
matronage."