After Caliban : Caribbean art in a global imaginary / Erica Moiah James.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• James, Erica Moiah, author. .

Series:

• e-Duke books scholarly collection
• The visual arts of Africa and its diasporas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Arts, Caribbean--20th century.
• Arts, Caribbean--21st century.
• Postcolonialism and the arts--Caribbean Area.
• Arts and globalization--Caribbean Area.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 289 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"In After Caliban, Erica Moiah James examines the rise of global Caribbean artists in the 1990s and their production of a decolonized art history for the Caribbean. She draws on Aimé Césaire's rewriting of Shakespeare's The Tempest, in which Caliban becomes the sole author of his own story, dissolving his fixed position as colonized in relation to Prospero as colonizer. James shows how visual artists such as Marc Latamie, Janine Antoni, Belkis Ayón, Edouard Duval-Carrié, and Christopher Cozier followed Césaire's model by employing a range of practices and methodologies that refused marginalization. Just as Césaire decolonized The Tempest, so too did these artists, who crafted a decolonial aesthetic that redefined their own cultural and historical narratives and positioned art as a key pathway toward a postcolonial future. By providing the foundation for a postcolonial, post-Caliban art world, these artists redefined the critical and popular notion of contemporary Caribbean art. At the same time, James argues, they fulfilled Césaire's dream for a postcolonial Caribbean while creating a nonhegemonic art historical practice that exists beyond modern binaries and borders"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

• Introduction : "Wat wrong wit dis place?"
• From behind God's back : Janine Antoni's embodied histories
• Meeting in the upper room : Belkis Ayón's La cena, 1988-1993
• Historical drag : genre, violence, and history in Edouard Duval-Carrié's Mardigras at Fort Dimanche, 1992
• The Caribbean does not exist : Maurizio Cattelan's 6th Caribbean Biennial, 1999
• Conclusion : "Wrong Way" Lenny, tempests, and other détournements.

Notes:

• Description based on print version record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: James, Erica Moiah. After Caliban.

ISBN:

• 9781478061069
• 1478061065

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