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...

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.