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Taking stakes in the unknown : tracing post-black art /

In 2001, Freestyle, a survey exhibition curated by Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem, introduced both a young generation of artists of African descent and the ambitious yet knowingly opaque term post-black to a pre 9-11 and pre-Obama world. In Taking Stakes in the Unknown, Nana Adusei-Pok...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Adusei-Poku, Nana (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, [2021]
Series:Image (Transcript (Firm)) ; v. 180.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • I. Introduction
  • II. Destabilizing meaning
  • 1. The textures of history
  • 2. What is the script of your time?
  • 3. Economies of the Double-bind
  • III. Historical entanglements of Black revolutionary women
  • 1. De-interpellating interpellation-visual disobediences
  • 2. How do I look? (very good, I must say I am amazed!)
  • 3. O my body, will always remain in question!- Reviewing the Fanonian moment
  • IV. Heterotemporality as a way of understanding the contemporary
  • 1. Reclaiming our time
  • 2. Riffs on real time and the present that is fleeting though captured
  • 3. Rewind selecta
  • 4. Hetero-temporality
  • V. Paradox synchronicities
  • 1. Contextualization
  • 2. IWHISHIWAS or WISHIWASHI?
  • 3. From Leitkultur to Leightkultur
  • VI. Abstract facts
  • 1. Enter and exit the new Negro
  • 2. Enter and exit the new Negro-from invisible visibilities
  • 3. Enter the new Negro
  • 4. Ambiguity as chance-abstraction as means of identity
  • VII. Post-Post-black
  • VIII. Bibliography.