Of Worlds and Artworks : : A Relational View on Artistic Practices from Africa and the Diaspora / / edited by Ute Fendler, Marie-Anne Kohl, Gilbert Shang Ndi, Christopher Joseph Odhiambo, Clarissa Vierke.

• Superior document: Africa Multiple ; 3
• TeilnehmendeR: Fendler, Ute,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Africa Multiple ; 3.; Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (285 pages)

The present volume brings together contributions which explore artworks - including literature, visual arts, film and performances - as dynamic sites of worlding. It puts emphasis on the processes of creating or doing worlds, implying movement as opposed to the boundary drawing of area studies. From such a processual perspective, Africa is not a delineated area, but emerges in a variety of relations which can reach across the continent, but also the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic or Europe. Contributors are: Thierry Boudjekeu, Elena Brugioni, Ute Fendler, Sophie Lembcke, Gilbert Ndi Shang, Samuel Ndogo, Duncan Tarrant, Kumari Issur, CJ Odhiambo, Michaela Ott, Peter Simatei, Clarissa Vierke, Chinelo J. Enemuo.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Part 1: Openings -- 2 Prelude I: Integrating Essence and Influence in Legitimizing Worlds: an Artist Reflects -- 3 Prelude II: Dividual Processes of Worlding from Philosophical, Sociological -- 1 Philosophical Conceptualizations of the Becoming-World -- 2 World Society and Social Processes of Worlding -- 3 Aesthetic Processes of Worlding -- 4 Upbeat: Artwork or Artifact: Reframing Objects in Ethnographic Museums -- 1 Unbelievable Treasures: on Decolonizing Museums -- 2 Art or Artifact? Deconstructing the Power of Displays in the 1980s -- 3 The Beginning of a New Era: Displaying African Art and the European Avant-garde in the USA -- 4 Beyond Compare-Recent Reconfigurations of Displaying Objects of Non-European Provenance -- 5 Conclusion -- Exhibition catalogues -- Works cited -- Part 2: Indian Ocean Worlds and Artworks -- Section 1: Literary Entanglements -- 5 East African Indian Writing and the Worlding of Diasporas -- 1 Worlding Diasporas -- 6 Zanzibari Poetic Worlds -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The "World Literary Space" -- 3 The Fieldwork -- 4 What Does "Good" Poetry Do? or, the Logic of the Zanzibari Poetic Space -- 5 Kujibizana or Malumbano -- 6 Tenzi in Performance -- 7 Conclusion -- 7 Zanzibari Worlds: a Relational Reading -- 1 Introduction: Abdulrazak Gurnah and Shafi Adam Shafi-Two Zanzibari Writers -- 2 Worlds Apart? Reading across Worlds -- 2.1 Vuta n'kuvute -- 2.2 By the Sea -- 3 Imagining Zanzibar in Relation -- 3.1 Relating the City in both Novels -- 4 Conclusion -- Section 2: A Diversity of Genres -- 8 Artistic Imaginaries of War in East Africa: "Worlding" as an Agency of Peace Culture -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From Worlds of War to "Worldings" of Peace -- 3 Conclusion.

9 "Tell Your Neighbor Life is Very Tricky": Performing the City in Swahili Comedy Shows in Nairobi -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Comedian: MCA Tricky -- 3 Stage Name and Persona -- 4 Stand-up Comedy -- 5 The Subject of Tricky's Performances -- 6 Nine Steps in the Episode "MCA Tricky Writes a Letter to the President" -- 7 Conclusion -- YouTube Videos -- Section 3: Intermedial Inquiries -- 10 A World(-System) of Debris: Ruins, Remains, and Self-Writing in Narratives across -- 1 Literary and Visual Storytelling across the Indian Ocean -- 2 Self-Writing, Indian Ocean Studies, and World-literature: Toward New Theoretical Departures -- 11 Unraveling Dichotomies in the Indian Ocean World -- 1 Reframing Mauritius: from Island State to Ocean State -- 2 Fluidity -- 3 Binarisms versus Oneness -- 4 Interconnectedness -- 5 Conclusion -- Part 3: Transatlantic Worlds and Artworks -- Section 4: Remembering Relations -- 12 The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Reimagination of Colombian -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Jorge Artel and Tidalectic Poetry -- 3 Conclusion -- 13 Quaseilhas: a Performative and Transmedial Memory -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Performance Space as Space-Time Capsule -- 3 Telling Stories and Fragmented Memories -- 4 Fragmented Stories -- 4.1 The Story Told in Camamu -- 4.2 The Story Told in Pantaleon -- 4.3 The Story Told in Quebra Machado -- 5 The In-Betweens: Visual, Sonic, and Symbolic Connections and Ruptures -- 6 Beyond Fragmented Memories: Afrofuturistic Perspectives -- 14 The Slave-Trade Trauma in Léonora Miano's La Saison de l'ombre (Season of the Shadow) -- 1 The Promise and Potential of African Narratives for the Study of Trauma -- 2 Miano's Origin, Career, and Interest in Slavery -- 3 Trauma Studies and the Postcolonial Movement -- 4 Miano and the Slave-Trade Trauma -- 5 The Traumatic Memory of Capture.

6 Trauma Healing, Mourning, and African Renaissance -- 7 Conclusion -- Index.