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Revolts in Cultural Critique

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvRosemarie Buikema

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Centered around the relationship between art and political transformation. From Charlottë Bronte and Virginia Woolf, to Marlene van Niekerk and William Kentridge, artists and intellectuals have tried to address the question: How to deal with the legacy of exclusion and oppression? Via substantive works of art, this book examines some of the answers that have emerged to this question, to show how art can put into motion something new and how it can transform social and cultural relations in a sustainable way. In this way, art can function as an effective form of cultural critique. In the course of this book, a range of artworks are examined, through a postcolonial and feminist lens, in which revolt—both as a theme and as a medium-specific technique or/as critique —is made visible. Time and time again, revolt takes the form of a slow and thorough working through of the position of the individual in relation to her history and her contemporary geopolitical circumstances. It thus becomes evident that renewal and transformation in art and society are most successful when they proceed according to the method of self-reflexive cultural critique; when they do not present themselves as revolution, radical breaks with the past, but rather as processes of revolt in which knowledge of the past is investigated, complemented, corrected, and bent to a new collective will.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-12-10
Mått161 x 241 x 21 mm
Vikt481 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Critical Humanities
Antal sidor204
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781786614025

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Kolonialism och imperialism inom Historia och arkeologi
Konstteori inom Kultur

Preface IntroductionPart IFeminism and Postcolonialism1. Thinking Beyond the Weight of Tradition: Virginia Woolf’s Postcolonial and Anti-Militarist Feminism2. The Future Perfect of Bertha Mason: Configurations of Gender, Class, Ethnicity and “Race” in Charlotte Bront?’s Jane Eyre3. Bertha Mason in Labuwangi: Couperus and Colonial GothicPart IITruth and Reconciliation4. Truth and its Discontents: Reading Coetzee and Van Niekerk5. A Dress for Phila Portia Ndwandwe: Moving from Krog to Mntambo6. New Leaders and Old Texts: Recycling the ArchivePart IIIDecolonising the Public Space7. #RhodesMustFall and the Curation of European Imperial Legacies8. The Folds of History in William Kentridge’s Black Box TheatreEpilogue

With characteristic brilliance, Rosemarie Buikema raises one of the most fundamental questions of our time: What to do with “old stuff”? That is, through what methods, means, and measures can humanity transition away from the violence of coloniality to just and equitable relations. A book about a political "not yet here" that has nevertheless already materialized in practices of imagination, Revolts in Cultural Critique offers a deeply compelling treatment of the capacity of form to work through complex and haunting pasts.