Collection of essays that tackles the question of aesthetics in contemporary Africa and in the African diaspora by considering the fraught and interdependent relationship between beauty and ugliness.
Collection of essays that tackles the question of aesthetics in contemporary Africa and in the African diaspora by considering the fraught and interdependent relationship between beauty and ugliness.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Sarah Nuttall is Associate Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is a coeditor of Senses of Culture: South African Culture Studies; Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa; and Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature, and History in South Africa and Australia.
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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 Liberté: 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 / Célestin Monga 224 Let's Cook / François Vergès 240 On the Slipperiness of Food / Cheryl-Ann Michael 256 Afro-Aesthetics in Brazil / Patricia Pinho 266 Yorùbá 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
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 Liberté: 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 / Célestin Monga 224 Let's Cook / François Vergès 240 On the Slipperiness of Food / Cheryl-Ann Michael 256 Afro-Aesthetics in Brazil / Patricia Pinho 266 Yorùbá 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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