UID:
almahu_9949716232802882
Format:
1 online resource (285 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
90-04-68975-3
Series Statement:
Africa Multiple ; 3
Content:
The present volume brings together contributions which explore artworks - including literature, visual arts, film and performances - as dynamic sites of worlding. It puts emphasis on the processes of creating or doing worlds, implying movement as opposed to the boundary drawing of area studies. From such a processual perspective, Africa is not a delineated area, but emerges in a variety of relations which can reach across the continent, but also the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic or Europe. Contributors are: Thierry Boudjekeu, Elena Brugioni, Ute Fendler, Sophie Lembcke, Gilbert Ndi Shang, Samuel Ndogo, Duncan Tarrant, Kumari Issur, CJ Odhiambo, Michaela Ott, Peter Simatei, Clarissa Vierke, Chinelo J. Enemuo.
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Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Part 1: Openings -- 2 Prelude I: Integrating Essence and Influence in Legitimizing Worlds: an Artist Reflects -- 3 Prelude II: Dividual Processes of Worlding from Philosophical, Sociological -- 1 Philosophical Conceptualizations of the Becoming-World -- 2 World Society and Social Processes of Worlding -- 3 Aesthetic Processes of Worlding -- 4 Upbeat: Artwork or Artifact: Reframing Objects in Ethnographic Museums -- 1 Unbelievable Treasures: on Decolonizing Museums -- 2 Art or Artifact? Deconstructing the Power of Displays in the 1980s -- 3 The Beginning of a New Era: Displaying African Art and the European Avant-garde in the USA -- 4 Beyond Compare-Recent Reconfigurations of Displaying Objects of Non-European Provenance -- 5 Conclusion -- Exhibition catalogues -- Works cited -- Part 2: Indian Ocean Worlds and Artworks -- Section 1: Literary Entanglements -- 5 East African Indian Writing and the Worlding of Diasporas -- 1 Worlding Diasporas -- 6 Zanzibari Poetic Worlds -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The "World Literary Space" -- 3 The Fieldwork -- 4 What Does "Good" Poetry Do? or, the Logic of the Zanzibari Poetic Space -- 5 Kujibizana or Malumbano -- 6 Tenzi in Performance -- 7 Conclusion -- 7 Zanzibari Worlds: a Relational Reading -- 1 Introduction: Abdulrazak Gurnah and Shafi Adam Shafi-Two Zanzibari Writers -- 2 Worlds Apart? Reading across Worlds -- 2.1 Vuta n'kuvute -- 2.2 By the Sea -- 3 Imagining Zanzibar in Relation -- 3.1 Relating the City in both Novels -- 4 Conclusion -- Section 2: A Diversity of Genres -- 8 Artistic Imaginaries of War in East Africa: "Worlding" as an Agency of Peace Culture -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From Worlds of War to "Worldings" of Peace -- 3 Conclusion.
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9 "Tell Your Neighbor Life is Very Tricky": Performing the City in Swahili Comedy Shows in Nairobi -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Comedian: MCA Tricky -- 3 Stage Name and Persona -- 4 Stand-up Comedy -- 5 The Subject of Tricky's Performances -- 6 Nine Steps in the Episode "MCA Tricky Writes a Letter to the President" -- 7 Conclusion -- YouTube Videos -- Section 3: Intermedial Inquiries -- 10 A World(-System) of Debris: Ruins, Remains, and Self-Writing in Narratives across -- 1 Literary and Visual Storytelling across the Indian Ocean -- 2 Self-Writing, Indian Ocean Studies, and World-literature: Toward New Theoretical Departures -- 11 Unraveling Dichotomies in the Indian Ocean World -- 1 Reframing Mauritius: from Island State to Ocean State -- 2 Fluidity -- 3 Binarisms versus Oneness -- 4 Interconnectedness -- 5 Conclusion -- Part 3: Transatlantic Worlds and Artworks -- Section 4: Remembering Relations -- 12 The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Reimagination of Colombian -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Jorge Artel and Tidalectic Poetry -- 3 Conclusion -- 13 Quaseilhas: a Performative and Transmedial Memory -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Performance Space as Space-Time Capsule -- 3 Telling Stories and Fragmented Memories -- 4 Fragmented Stories -- 4.1 The Story Told in Camamu -- 4.2 The Story Told in Pantaleon -- 4.3 The Story Told in Quebra Machado -- 5 The In-Betweens: Visual, Sonic, and Symbolic Connections and Ruptures -- 6 Beyond Fragmented Memories: Afrofuturistic Perspectives -- 14 The Slave-Trade Trauma in Léonora Miano's La Saison de l'ombre (Season of the Shadow) -- 1 The Promise and Potential of African Narratives for the Study of Trauma -- 2 Miano's Origin, Career, and Interest in Slavery -- 3 Trauma Studies and the Postcolonial Movement -- 4 Miano and the Slave-Trade Trauma -- 5 The Traumatic Memory of Capture.
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6 Trauma Healing, Mourning, and African Renaissance -- 7 Conclusion -- Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-04-68974-5
Language:
English
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