{"id":2351,"date":"2021-04-09T10:14:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T09:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeuniculture\/?p=2351"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:47:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:47:02","slug":"what-am-i-reading-now-jade-montserrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/what-am-i-reading-now-jade-montserrat\/","title":{"rendered":"What I am Reading Now: Jade Montserrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jade Montserrat takes us through her top five books in the newest instalment of \u201cWhat I am Reading Now\u2026\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2352\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2352\" style=\"width: 537px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/jade.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2352\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/jade-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"537\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/jade-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/jade.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jade Montserrat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jade Montserrat is the recipient of the Stuart Hall Foundation Scholarship which supports her PhD at IBAR UCLan, and the development of her work from her Black diasporic perspective in the North of England. She works through drawing, painting, film, performance and many other mediums.<\/p>\n<p>Her top five books which has shaped her current thinking, research and practice include Alice Walker\u2019s <em>In Search of Our Mother\u2019s Garden<\/em>, which has helped to shape her workshops and Elizabeth Ezra\u2019s <em>The Colonial Unconscious<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/ezra.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2353\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/ezra-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/ezra-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/ezra.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/alice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2354\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/alice-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"388\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/alice-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/alice.jpg 343w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Visit A-space in-between to read more about Jade Montserrat\u2019s most influential books and her career:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/cooper-gallery-inbetween\/what-i-am-reading-now\/2021-2\/\">https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/cooper-gallery-inbetween\/what-i-am-reading-now\/2021-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jade Montserrat takes us through her top five books in the newest instalment of \u201cWhat I am Reading Now\u2026\u201d. Jade Montserrat is the recipient of the Stuart Hall Foundation Scholarship which supports her PhD at IBAR UCLan, and the development of her work from her Black diasporic perspective in the North of England. She works [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":2356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-djcad","category-literature"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6324,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions\/6324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}