Of worlds and artworks : a relational view on artistic practices from Africa and the diaspora / Ute Fendler [and four others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fendler, Ute, author.

Series:

Africa Multiple ; 3.

Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2024.

Africa Multiple ; 3

Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2024

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts, African.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

African diaspora.

Africans--Intellectual life.

Africans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2024]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

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

2 From Worlds of War to "Worldings" of Peace

3 Conclusion.

9 "Tell Your Neighbor Life is Very Tricky": Performing the City in Swahili Comedy Shows in Nairobi

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"

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

Part 3: Transatlantic Worlds and Artworks

Section 4: Remembering Relations

12 The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Reimagination of Colombian

2 Jorge Artel and Tidalectic Poetry

3 Conclusion

13 Quaseilhas: a Performative and Transmedial Memory

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.

6 Trauma Healing, Mourning, and African Renaissance

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004689756

9004689753

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004689756 DOI