Decolonial Aesthetics II
Modes of Relating
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Beschreibung
The texts of the volume all deal with the imperative of ‘decolonization’: they try to highlight aesthetic strategies of (re)discovery of unthematized, misappropriated, transcultural and even transcontinental histories and memories as well as aesthetic practices that are absent from or too little perceived in nationally bound consciousnesses. Novels, poems and musical performances from the East African region are analyzed as intertwined histories of the Indian Ocean. Artworks of the Black Atlantic and perceptions of Africa are discussed from, for example, Brazilian perspectives or within the German context. Decolonizing exhibition practices in ethnological or art museums are evaluated. A stimulating, wide-ranging and heterogeneous portrait of contemporary interwoven world cultures.
This book features writing by 17 authors from Germany and from African and Latin American countries on highly diverse aesthetic phenomena as seen from their own different points of view. The texts in this volume all deal with the imperative of ‘decolonization’: they try to highlight aesthetic strategies for the (re)discovery of unthematized, misappropriated, transcultural and even transcontinental histories and memories and aesthetic practices that are absent from or too little perceived within national consciousnesses. Novels, poems and musical performances from the East African region are analysed as intertwined histories of the Indian Ocean and its different languages. Artworks of the Black Atlantic and perceptions of Africa are discussed from, for example, Brazilian perspectives. Within the German context, decolonisation strategies in exhibition practices in ethnological or art museums developed by Nigerian artists are evaluated; new terms such as ‘dividuation’ are proposed to describe these contemporary composite-cultural entanglements, and so on. A stimulating, wide-ranging and heterogeneous portrait of contemporary interwoven world cultures!
First publication on composite-cultural and decolonial aesthetics Focus on African space in its interconnectedness with the Atlantic and Indian Oceans Publication also for academics from African and Latin American universities
Autor*in
Patrick Oloko
Themen in »Decolonial Aesthetics II«
Particularized Universality Aesthetic-Ethical Entanglements Art of Re-Existence Polyrhythmic Aesthetics Exhibiting Polyvocality Ethnographic Museums Diasporic Aesthetics Participation Relation Composite Cultures Dividuation