Full Description
This book develops a critical intervention in the politics of time and anticolonial aesthetics. Engaging with recent debates on cultural activism and postcolonial and decolonial studies, the main objective of this volume is to examine the ways in which anticolonial cultural analysis and production keeps nurturing contemporary processes of progressive social transformation. The chapters in this volume argue that anticolonialism should not be bounded to a specific historical moment (that of postcolonial nation-building); rather, it should be seen as a fertile, radical tradition going beyond the specific event of decolonization and informing utopian and radical futures.
The twelve essays engage with this argument from a wide variety of disciplines, including film studies, art history, literary criticism, and cultural and visual studies. It is intended for scholars, activists, and students across disciplines who are interested in the intersections of culture, politics, and social change.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Interventions.
Contents
Introduction: The Temporal Politics of Anticolonial Aesthetics 1. Discordant Trajectories of the (Post-)Soviet (Post)Colonial Aesthetics 2. Insolence, Indolence, and the Ayitian free Black 3. Futures in the Presents: Decolonial Visions of the Haitian Revolution 4. C.L.R. James and the Genealogies of Socially Transformative Aesthetics 5. Memorializing Masculinity? Gendering the Iconography of French Colonialism and Anticolonial Resistance in Martinique and Guadeloupe 6. Rewriting Solidarities in Juxtaposition: The Poetic and the Chronopolitics of Bandung 7. Whose Star?: The Ongoing Cultural Present and Futures of Algeria's Revolution(s) 8. Cosmopolitan Repair: Reclaiming and Restoring Cultural Heritage in Postcolonial Nigeria 9. Anticolonial Aesthetics: Towards Eco-Cinema 10. The Limits of the Anthropocene: Anticolonial Humanity in Kidlat Tahimik's Mababangong Bangungot and Souleymane Cissé's Yeelen 11. Clasping Together the Magical and the Menial: Decolonizing Aesthetics
