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Nka (2023) 2023 (53): 44–55.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Holiday Powers This paper proposes a new reading of Moroccan abstract painter Jilali Gharbaoui through the lens of decolonization. Gharbaoui fits uncomfortably into the narrative of modernism in Morocco. Unlike other painters, interested in direct connections between their shapes or abstractions...
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Nka (2019) 2019 (44): 8–23.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Erica Moiah James Critiques of anachronism have been used to dismiss art made in the Caribbean since the arrival of Christopher Columbus. This article argues that in order to render Caribbean art in the critical imagination, one must first decolonize notions of time foundational to the discipline...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (48): 24–39.
Published: 01 May 2021
... but also redefined the exhibition, before its opening in Kassel, by conceiving it as a final installment of several “platforms” staged worldwide. His were strategic, paradigmatic interventions engineered to globalize the art world, and they effectively amounted to acts of art-historical decolonization...
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Nka (2013) 2013 (32): 62–69.
Published: 01 May 2013
.... Messaoud’s “traditional” Algerian wedding is certainly studies at New York University. While maintain- meant to produce an authentic e ect, but instead of being le ing an interest in decolonization and independence alone, it is a symbol of the tension between the police...
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Nka (2013) 2013 (32): 146–148.
Published: 01 May 2013
... currently Empire,French he inthe movements independence and in decolonization interest an While maintaining versity. York New Uni at studies French and Ian Merkel condition. human the War and Indochina First the both on flection re deeper demands Traces ofaMother Indochina, trauma...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (49): 8–23.
Published: 01 November 2021
... surrealists, and their contributions to internationalism, antifascist global protest, and decolonization, staged and performed outside the West. The artistic and intellectual output of the Egyptian surrealists was primarily centered around activities initiated by the Art and Liberty group (Jama’at al-Fann Wa...
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Nka (2018) 2018 (42-43): 28–43.
Published: 01 November 2018
... scholars of Marxism have, thus far, ignored non-Western (including African) contributions to Marxism as they have been appropriated and reshaped in the context of decolonization and postcolonial struggles. The author revisits the contribution of non-Western Marxism to the discourse of liberation...
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Nka (2018) 2018 (42-43): 58–71.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Shana L. Redmond Black vocal music is a dynamic alchemy of performance, technology, and strategy deployed in political scenes throughout the diaspora. In this essay, Paul Robeson is situated within the immanent spread of decolonization in the mid-twentieth century (in Africa, in particular...
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Nka (2019) 2019 (44): 94–107.
Published: 01 May 2019
... starting points are two of Cardoso’s key works: Repúblika (2014), created for the commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of the death of Amílcar Cabral, and Ferrugem ( Rust ), exhibited at the Tarrafal labor camp in 2017. She explores how these pieces act as political gestures of decolonization through...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (48): 70–95.
Published: 01 May 2021
... their decolonizing approach help create inclusive, discursive, and curatorial spaces that contested the binaristic perception of the West as the center and the non-West as periphery and offer a vision of the (art) world as profoundly entangled and plurivocal? How has the organization of Documenta11 as a globally...
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Nka (2013) 2013 (32): 8–17.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Achille Mbembe Frantz Fanon is one of the very few thinkers to have risked something that resembles a theory of decolonization. In this essay Achille Mbembe reflects on the dialectics of the end/closure and the boundless possibilities evoked by Fanon, and the ways these are played out under...
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Nka (2023) 2023 (53): 16–33.
Published: 01 November 2023
... States, the decisive anticolonial Battle of Adwa in Ethiopia, and the momentary promise of decolonization at the end of World War I. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Nka Publications 2023 Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller Ethiopia Egypt pan-Africanism historical reclamation...
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Nka (2023) 2023 (53): 126–136.
Published: 01 November 2023
... and ideological history of modernity and that artistic modernism of the twenty-first century can only be understood within the political and cultural implications of colonialism and the politics of decolonization. In this regard, the artists in the biennial brought forth the multiple fragments, ruptures...
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Nka (2009) 2009 (24): 102–107.
Published: 01 May 2009
... colonialism and later of decolonization, there is of Negritude with which he is so closely identified also the sense that the words, the work, are now alongside Leopold Sedar Senghor, and a host of definitively severed from a singular life of struggle other issues. It is imperative, however...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (48): 6–13.
Published: 01 May 2021
... in the was weirdly revealing. The implication is that CAA institutions of art, when the processes for exhibiting, is more academic and, therefore, the lack of sub- researching, discussing, and evaluating have been missions not surprising, leaving us with the ques- undergoing a decolonizing review. As revealed tion...
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Nka (2010) 2010 (26): 4–5.
Published: 01 May 2010
... (discon- a serious intellectual decline since the 1960s and tinued), Revue noire (discontinued), African Arts, 1970s, a period marked by the optimism of inde- Black Renaissance/Renaissance noire, Nka, the new pendence and decolonization movements and the Art South...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 6–7.
Published: 01 May 2020
... examined Africa s place in modernity and its role in the making of the complex and evolving identities of today s Europe. Decolonization, as the most important event of the mid-twentieth century and after, has complicated these issues by ushering in new geopolitical dislocations. This has led to the rise...
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Nka (2024) 2024 (54): 80–101.
Published: 01 May 2024
.... Though formally decolonized, N Diaye implied that such Black art research directed by Lods in continuation of his preceding Brazzaville Poto-Poto School curriculum, represented an upscale, bourgeois interpretation on the souvenir workshop aesthetic that catered to conventional third-world confections...
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Nka (2004) 2004 (19): 38–45.
Published: 01 May 2004
... '80s. A film culture, as Isaac Julien has elaborat• World War, during which for the most part the decolonization of ed, "which was also part of a conversation with the visual arts— the European empires has taken place, has been the accompany• with a number of different practices...
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Nka (2023) 2023 (53): 4–5.
Published: 01 November 2023
... perspective on the complexity of the socio-political, social, and economic systemic and the structural movements that characterized our world since the era of decolonization of the 1950s and 1960s. True to its themes, the various presentations and performances of participants have brought to light...