Decolonial Aesthetics II: Modes of Relating (Ästhetiken X.0 – Zeitgenössische Konturen ästhetischen Denkens) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3662662213 ISBN 13: 9783662662212

Publisher: J.B. Metzler, 2023

Synopsis

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!

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About the Author

Patrick Oloko is a professor of literature at Lagos University, Nigeria, and member of the DFG-Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. 

Michaela Ott is a Professor of Aesthetic Theory at the HfbK Hamburg and member of the DFG-Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. 

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.

From the Back Cover

The texts of the volume all deal with the imperative of ‘decolonization’: they try to highlight aesthetic strategies of (re)discovery of unthematized, misappropriated, transcultural and even transcontinental histories and memories as well as aesthetic practices that are absent from or too little perceived in nationally bound consciousnesses. Novels, poems and musical performances from the East African region are analyzed as intertwined histories of the Indian Ocean. Artworks of the Black Atlantic and perceptions of Africa are discussed from, for example, Brazilian perspectives or within the German context. Decolonizing exhibition practices in ethnological or art museums are evaluated. A stimulating, wide-ranging and heterogeneous portrait of contemporary interwoven world cultures.

Edition details

• Publisher: J.B. Metzler
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3662662213
• ISBN 13: 9783662662212
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228
• Editor: Oloko Patrick, Ott Michaela, Simatei Peter, Vierke Clarissa