Overview
- First publication on composite-cultural and decolonial aesthetics
- Focus on African space in its interconnectedness with the Atlantic and Indian Oceans
- Publication also for academics from African and Latin American universities
Part of the book series: Ästhetiken X.0 – Zeitgenössische Konturen ästhetischen Denkens (ÄZKäD)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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About this book
This book features writing by 17 authors from Germany and from African and Latin American countries on highly diverse aesthetic phenomena as seen from their own different points of view. The texts in this volume all deal with the imperative of ‘decolonization’: they try to highlight aesthetic strategies for the (re)discovery of unthematized, misappropriated, transcultural and even transcontinental histories and memories and aesthetic practices that are absent from or too little perceived within national consciousnesses. Novels, poems and musical performances from the East African region are analysed as intertwined histories of the Indian Ocean and its different languages. Artworks of the Black Atlantic and perceptions of Africa are discussed from, for example, Brazilian perspectives. Within the German context, decolonisation strategies in exhibition practices in ethnological or art museums developed by Nigerian artists are evaluated; new terms such as ‘dividuation’ are proposed to describe these contemporary composite-cultural entanglements, and so on. A stimulating, wide-ranging and heterogeneous portrait of contemporary interwoven world cultures!
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Peter Simatei is a professor of literature at MOI University, Kenia, and member of the DFG-Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.
Clarissa Vierke is a professor of literature and member of the DFG-Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Decolonial Aesthetics II
Book Subtitle: Modes of Relating
Editors: Patrick Oloko, Michaela Ott, Peter Simatei, Clarissa Vierke
Series Title: Ästhetiken X.0 – Zeitgenössische Konturen ästhetischen Denkens
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66222-9
Publisher: J.B. Metzler Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: J.B. Metzler Humanities (German Language)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-66221-2Published: 28 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-66222-9Published: 27 June 2023
Series ISSN: 2662-1398
Series E-ISSN: 2662-1401
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 211
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Aesthetics, Postcolonial Philosophy, African Culture, Latin American Culture