African and diaspora aesthetics
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書誌事項
African and diaspora aesthetics
Duke University Press , Prince Claus Fund Library, 2006
- : cloth
- : pbk
- タイトル別名
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Beautiful ugly
大学図書館所蔵 全4件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 392-408) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In Cameroon, a monumental "statue of liberty" is made from scrap metal. In Congo, a thriving popular music incorporates piercing screams and carnal dances. When these and other instantiations of the aesthetics of Africa and its diasporas are taken into account, how are ideas of beauty reconfigured? Scholars and artists take up that question in this invigorating, lavishly illustrated collection, which includes more than one hundred color images. Exploring sculpture, music, fiction, food, photography, fashion, and urban design, the contributors engage with and depart from canonical aesthetic theories as they demonstrate that beauty cannot be understood apart from ugliness.Highlighting how ideas of beauty are manifest and how they mutate, travel, and combine across time and distance, continental and diasporic writers examine the work of a Senegalese sculptor inspired by Leni Riefenstahl's photographs of Nuba warriors; a rich Afro-Brazilian aesthetic incorporating aspects of African, Jamaican, and American cultures; and African Americans' Africanization of the Santeria movement in the United States. They consider the fraught, intricate spaces of the urban landscape in postcolonial South Africa; the intense pleasures of eating on Reunion; and the shockingly graphic images on painted plywood boards advertising "morality" plays along the streets of Ghana. And they analyze the increasingly ritualized wedding feasts in Cameroon as well as the limits of an explicitly "African" aesthetics. Two short stories by the Mozambican writer Mia Couto gesture toward what beauty might be in the context of political failure and postcolonial disillusionment. Together the essays suggest that beauty is in some sense future-oriented and that taking beauty in Africa and its diasporas seriously is a way of rekindling hope.
Contributors. Rita Barnard, Kamari Maxine Clarke, Mia Couto, Mark Gevisser, Simon Gikandi, Michelle Gilbert, Isabel Hofmeyr, William Kentridge, Dominique Malaquais, Achille Mbembe, Cheryl-Ann Michael, Celestin Monga, Sarah Nuttall, Patricia Pinho, Rodney Place, Els van der Plas, Pippa Stein, Francoise Verges
目次
Introduction: Rethinking Beauty / Sarah Nuttall 6
Picasso, Africa and the Schemata of Difference / Simon Gikanki 30
Variations on the Beautiful in Congolese Worlds of Sound / Achille Mbembe 94
Two Thoughts of Drawing Beauty / William Kentridge 94
The Place of Beauty: Reflections on Elaine Scarry and Zakes Mda / Rita Barnard 102
Quille Liberte: Art, Beauty and the Grammars of Resistance in Doula / Dominique Malaquais 122
Fresh Stories / Pippa Stein 164
The Love of the Body: Ousmane Sow and Beauty / Els van der Plas 188
Inheritance / Mark Gevisser 204
Let's Eat: Banquet Aesthetics and Social Epicurism / Celestin Monga 224
Let's Cook / Francois Verges 240
On the Slipperiness of Food / Cheryl-Ann Michael 256
Afro-Aesthetics in Brazil / Patricia Pinho 266
Yoruba Aesthetics and Trans-Atlantic Imaginaries / Kamari Maxine Clarke 290
Urban Imaging: The Friche Waiting to Happen / Rodney Place 316
Things Ugly: Ghanaian Popular Painting / Michelle Gilbert 340
Two Stories: Old Man with Garden at the Rear End of Time and The Fat Indian Girl / Mia Couto 372
Seeing the Familiar: Notes on Mia Couto / Isabel Hofmeyr 384
Notes 392
Index 409
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