| Description |
1 online resource (285 p.) |
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Africa Multiple Series ; v.3 |
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Africa Multiple Series
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 -- 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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
This book brings together 13 contributions which reflect upon the relation between worlds and arts from Africa, the Black Atlantic and the Indian Ocean. How do alternative worlds emerge in configurations of literature, visual arts, performance, art curation and film? Questioning notions of clearly defined borders, the essays offer a processual perspective of worlds constantly in the making |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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2 The Performance Space as Space-Time Capsule |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kohl, Marie-Anne
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Shang Ndi, Gilbert
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Odhiambo, Christopher Joseph
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Vierke, Clarissa
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| ISBN |
9789004689756 |
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9004689753 |
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