Art, Creativity, and Politics in Africa and the Diaspora (1st ed. 2018) (African Histories and Modernities)

By: Abimbola Adelakun and Toyin Falola

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Synopsis: This book explores the politics of artistic creativity, examining how black artists in Africa and the diaspora create art as a procedure of self-making. Essays cross continents to uncover the efflorescence of black culture in national and global contexts and in literature, film, performance, music, and visual art. Contributors place the concerns of black artists and their works within national and transnational conversations on anti-black racism, xenophobia, ethnocentrism, migration, resettlement, resistance, and transnational feminisms. Does art by the subaltern fulfill the liberatory potential that critics have ascribed to it? What other possibilities does political art offer? Together, these essays sort through the aesthetics of daily life to build a thesis that reflects the desire of black artists and cultures to remake themselves and their world.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783319913100
Related ISBNs:: 9783319913094
Publisher:: Springer International Publishing
Date of Addition:: 10/03/22
Copyrighted By:: Springer
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Abimbola Adelakun
Edited by:: Toyin Falola