... thinking, the ruptures and disassembling in vernacular speech in the Francophone Caribbean result in an “exemplary phenomenon,” a “counterpoetics,” and a “compact mass, pushing us through a dimension of emptiness where we must with difficulty and pain put it all back together. ” Glissant’s idea...

... the many vernaculars he used. © 2020 by Nka Publications 2020 Norman Lewis abstract expressionism Harlem Artists’ Guild Studio 35 Processional Journal of Contemporary African Art 47 November 20206 Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-8719604 © 2020 by Nka Publications Lucy H. Partman M usician...

... handkerchief, polished brogue shoes, white starched shirt with throat-strangling tie, and a trilby hat cocked at an angle. In Eastern Caribbean vernacular they were saga bwoys , or sweet bwoys , masculine personas who, in my rite of passage from a short-pants “colored” boy to a black British young man, I saw...

... array of multi-national and regional forms, each with its own vernacular and personal style. Part of its longevity is due to its relentless thirst...

... created a form of image making that was on the aesthetics of vernacular street culture, transformative.3 Rather than merely translating Colomba reassembles the canonical language used blackness into readable forms for white audiences, to aestheticize the female form. Ultimately, what they used...

.... The reigniting of his career via the group exhibition Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980 has provided an opportunity to begin the writing of American art history through an inclusive lens. John Outterbridge assemblage sculpture combines vernacular North Carolina African American art...

... that would uncritically cele• of all culture.6 brate and eulogize the triumphs of the revolution. Nor was he making the case for a romantic return A Vernacular Modernity to traditional artistic practices. "A national culture It is precisely this negotiation between a national is not a folklore...

... or construction ing a point of reference for new structures based are not included, lending the structures a sense of on the vernacular. Instead, it distills the African timelessness. village into the circular hut and enclosure, a fic- Based on the presentation of these forms, sweep- tional, universalized...

..., Real Niggas Don't Die, which strike a familiar note, an echo of the vernacular of contem• porary African American Rap and DJ culture. Nelson acknowledges the influence of the painter-draftsman, John Biggers and the documentary photographer, Weegee. Both, for him, were interested...

... in the glob• and sandy alleys amidst urban grids concretize the collision of French al economy, new initiatives such as Oumou Sy's Metissacana cyber- and (neo) colonial modernity with an African vernacular modernity of cafe, the first internet cafe in West Africa, claim an African place in vir• very...

..., and containers of colored and clear seawa- ter. Latamie's hallmark use of trade goods and vernacular...

... vernaculars. There is at least one place on the African continent to which we tie our sense of self: be it a nation-state (Ethiopia), a city (Ibadan), or an auntie s kitchen. Then there s the G8 city or two (or three) that we know like the backs of our hands, and the various institutions that know us for our...

... the aesthetic experience, breaking Kamĩrĩĩthũ Community Education and Cultural with the mechanisms of mystification that charac- Centre. Wa Thiong’o developed a community-­ terized theater, art, and reality.7 building project by recovering a vernacular lan- Many of the questions asked then remain a guage...

... and the possibilities of photography, exploring the ways that Fani-Kayode bent the medium for vernacular and nonnormative intentions. The book is nally an engagement with the vast cultural, social, and political terrains that are crowded into the 1980s, a de- cade that de es easy summation. Most powerful of all...

... of organized trade unions and professional associations and literary and artistic movements, contributing to the creation of a strong civil society in which the Sudanese Left movement played a pioneering role in vernacularizing and localizing schools of thought, such as Marxism, by prioritizing culture...

... and New York University since 2004 and jointly also focused on aesthetics, vernacular style, fashion, presented in 2013 with L’École des hautes études en and ethnography in describing a sense of place and sciences sociales (the School for Advanced Studies identity. Day after day, participants...

.... Hammons white males. The image of the oversexed dance and gesture as intrinsically poetic would later move on to adopting street per• black body taps into white desires for and and saw them as foundational characteris• sonae, staging vernacular critiques...

..., and a serious rethinking of its spatial configurations. 3 and projecting elements of the vernacular outward.” 7 Yet the Notes national arena, is a call for critical reflection. In gesturing toward a theoretical framework with which value of their artistic production...

... Stevenson for a travel- ject matter is that of vehicular transportwheels,” er’s insight into the society and the lived realities in the street vernacular—­as a metonymic element of Benin. His take on Benin is that, as a society, it within consciousness. On one level the underlying operates more...

... with Thomasos s home country of Trinidad. A vitrine filled with albums of Thomasos s photographs at the center of the gallery highlight her interest in vernacular architecture, which inspired motifs in future works. A series of works called dwelling, for instance, shows how Thomasos built compositions through...