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Essays in migratory aesthetics : cultural practices between migration and art-making /

This volume addresses the impact of human movement on the aesthetic practices that make up the fabric of culture. The essays explore the ways in which cultural activities--ranging from the habitual gestures of the body to the production of specific artworks--register the impact of migration, from th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Durrant, Sam, 1970-, Lord, Catherine M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007.
Colección:Thamyris intersecting ; no. 17.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This volume addresses the impact of human movement on the aesthetic practices that make up the fabric of culture. The essays explore the ways in which cultural activities--ranging from the habitual gestures of the body to the production of specific artworks--register the impact of migration, from the forced transportation of slaves to the New World and of Jews to the death camps to the economic migration of peoples between the West and its erstwhile colonies; from the internal and external exile of Palestinians to the free movement of cosmopolitan intellectuals. Rather than focusing exclusively.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (1 volume)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781435612204
1435612205
9789401204675
9401204675
9042022361
9789042022362
ISSN:1381-1312 ;