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... In this chapter, Marlon M. Bailey employs an insider perspective to examine Cedric Brown’s play Cuban Hustle . Having performed in a production of the play, Bailey engages the play from the perspective of how its thematics highlight the limited erotic possibilities and marginalization of black...

... Addressing the curatorial focus on the status of contemporary artwork as “documents,” the core thematic strand connecting the wide range of artists selected by Okwui Enwezor and his team for the eleventh edition of Documenta, the five-yearly review of contemporary art held in Germany...

... Hall draws out the long durée by which diasporan artists today address slavery’s afterlives. He goes on to map the work of several black British artists who undertook Belisario’s diasporic journey in reverse, “returning to some of the thematic ground that his work occupied” and articulating...

... of the archive becomes uncovered, a shift in how we practice identification and listen to individuals or society. The author also thematizes language directly by way of the figure of the foreigner in German language, in the form of Usländerdütsch (foreigner-German), as the changing of language through lives...

... The apocalyptic is the thematic that holds together the fourth chapter. Beginning with an analysis of Teresita Fernández's Puerto Rico (Burned) 6 (2018), which offers burnt paper as a representation of palm fronds, this chapter probes the conditions that enable approximation, from the use...

... This chapter argues that the tactility of the dancefloor is also evoked in electronic dance music, both thematically and texturally. This cluster of musical styles engages touch through beats, flesh, and grain; that is, it (1) emphasizes percussion (especially at low frequencies and high volume...

... American History and Culture, opened in 2016. Tensions and contradictions involved in both settings emerge in exhibitions both thematically and in design. The chapter also considers emotional pacing fostered through exhibit design and the potential affective power that design techniques bring to exhibit...

... A survey of modern and contemporary art’s dependence on the thematics of sex work, from Manet’s paradigmatic Olympia to the contemporary work of Hito Steyerl, this second and historical introduction complements the structuralist, theoretical approach of the first introduction. It argues...

... This introduction introduces the theoretical framework for Negotiated Moments and provides a summary of each chapter within the context of the thematic framework for the section in which it appears. The sections are Listening and the Ethics of Improvisation, Technology and Embodiment...

... The introduction, “Layered Diasporas,” discusses Palmares in relation to concepts and events in Brazil and also Africa and Latin America. The “layered diasporas” that shaped Palmares are explored through the book’s five thematic parts. Part I, “War and Conquest,” situates the violences leveled...

... This thematic chapter examines several of Heap of Birds’s ongoing series, including the abstract Neuf paintings and his conceptual public art interventions, such as the artist’s well-known Native Hosts projects. These works are discussed in light of the tradition of landscape representations...

... This thematic chapter returns to tribal lands in Oklahoma, bringing the artist back home in a path that recalls indigenous understanding of time as circular and cyclical. The chapter focuses on public artworks, including temporary sign panels in London and Vancouver, collaborations...

..., and the broader comparative literature of the revolution. Brent Hayes Edwards examines thematic and figurative connections between the play and Césaire’s other works, emphasizing its representation of Negritude as a cultural project. The significance of Haiti as a symbol for Black revolutionary self-determination...

...Part VI In this chapter, Marlon M. Bailey employs an insider perspective to examine Cedric Brown’s play Cuban Hustle . Having performed in a production of the play, Bailey engages the play from the perspective of how its thematics highlight the limited erotic possibilities...

... Dreaming in Cuban (1992) and Colson Whitehead’s Zone One (2011) to show how the commodity activates apocalyptic destruction in the text and to reveal intersecting histories of hemispheric violence. A comparative analysis reveals an otherwise unexplored thematic relationship between García’s post–Cold...