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South Atlantic Quarterly (2017) 116 (2): 426–431.
Published: 01 April 2017
... economies, if voluntary blindness, managed oblivion, and pervasive institutional paralysis can be overcome through the exercise of what I call a “politics of perception.” © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 petcoke tar sands bomb trains political art local activism Reference Holmes...
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Stuart Hall: Art and the Politics of Black Cultural Production
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2016) 115 (4): 665–683.
Published: 01 October 2016
... . Angela McRobbie
Stuart Hall:
Art and the Politics of Black Cultural Production
Identity politics . . . , perhaps deservedly, acquired a
bad name. However I want to argue here that in this
moment the emergence...
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Politics and Language in Dryden’s Poetry: The Arts of Disguise by Steven N. Zwicker
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1986) 85 (2): 213–214.
Published: 01 April 1986
...A. E. Wallace Maurer Politics and Language in Dryden’s Poetry: The Arts of Disguise . By Zwicker Steven N. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1984 . Pp. xii , 248 . $25.00 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 213 Politics and Language...
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The Politics and Art of Decency: Orwell’s Medium
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1976) 75 (4): 424–433.
Published: 01 October 1976
...Berel Lang Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 The Politics and Art of Decency: Orwell s Medium Berel Lang Good prose is like a window pane. George Orwell I There is wisdom as well as foolishness in the moods of fashion, and both qualities have affected the critical estimates...
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Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville by Michael Paul Rogin
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1985) 84 (2): 225–226.
Published: 01 April 1985
...Merton M. Sealts, Jr. Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville . By Rogin Michael Paul . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1983 . Pp. xv , 354 . $22.95 . Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Book Reviews 225 lifts an intriguing curtain on a hitherto...
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The Art Society and the Making of Postcolonial Modernism in Nigeria
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2010) 109 (3): 505–527.
Published: 01 July 2010
... of the historical implications of the encounter with multiple, sometimes contradictory logics of politics, art, and culture involves what the author describes as compound consciousness—the willful incorporation and critical resolution of the alienation and fragmented subjectivity produced by the colonial experience...
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The Saturday of Messianic Time (Agamben and Badiou on the Apostle Paul)
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2008) 107 (1): 37–54.
Published: 01 January 2008
... engaged in a “truth procedure.” Badiou's book has only three categories (the Greek, the Jew, and the privileged term of the law-surpassing Christian) compared to his customary four (politics, art, science, and love), and in Saint Paul he casts suspicion on what would be the potential fourth category...
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Autonomy of Art, Anxieties of Transition
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2025) 124 (1): 163–178.
Published: 01 January 2025
...Brittany Murray; Oded Nir In this article, the authors argue that our moment of transition in the capitalist mode of production requires us to rethink the received opposition between politically committed art and autonomous art, through a reading of the recent film Anatomy of a Fall . The first...
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The Party of Art: When the People Entered the Gallery
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2010) 109 (1): 75–94.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Hassan M. Musa This account of the art exhibition literature in the Sudan reflects the complexity of modern political action there. The art exhibition was introduced by the colonial state as an instrument of propaganda. Post-independence authorities continued in a similar direction. Modern...
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Aestheticization of Reality
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2009) 108 (2): 265–284.
Published: 01 April 2009
..., and a discussion of the social and political significance of this connection is undertaken. The relationship between art and society is considered from a political and a cognitive perspective, taking into account the possible critical and affirmative functions of artworks. A distinction is drawn between attempts...
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A Story Where Something Turns Out All Right: Remembering Utopia in Mohsin Hamid's Exit West
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2025) 124 (1): 39–56.
Published: 01 January 2025
... the narration of an unexpected event—one in which nothing is happening. The world that emerges is one where new possibilities appear in what Alain Badiou identifies as the conditions of science, art, politics, and “minimal communism,” or love. Such a world—“not a heaven but not a hell”—is one wherein...
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The Densities of Modernism
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2010) 109 (3): 475–503.
Published: 01 July 2010
... of avant-gardism. How might one handle these
kinds of artistic pursuits? Should one dismiss them as “blind” mimicry,
accommodationism, or naïveté? Is one obliged to assign them a politics of
resistance?
A Case for African Modernisms?
Art historian and curator Chika Okeke-Agulu writes...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2023) 122 (3): 525–547.
Published: 01 July 2023
... feminisms and her awareness of herself as a bad object for funding, presentation, and favored kinds of political work. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Latinx art woman of color feminism new materialism hoarding negative affect...
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Ibrahim El Salahi and Calligraphic Modernism in a Comparative Perspective
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2010) 109 (3): 555–576.
Published: 01 July 2010
... is clearly visible in the aesthetic realm.
Wijdan Ali has noted a clear decline in artistic production, attributing it to
the “amount of poor-quality work that has passed itself off as calligraphic
art.”31 However, the rise of political nation-based Islam and the general
degeneration...
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Debt : Occupy, Postcontemporary Art, and the Aesthetics of Debt Resistance
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2013) 112 (4): 784–803.
Published: 01 October 2013
... of the art world and academia alike, the aesthetico-political work of Strike Debt has included the popularization of the red square as an emblem of debt resistance, the invention of the debt burn as an anticapitalist ritual, and the launching of the Rolling Jubilee, a direct action campaign initiated...
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On “Making Sure No One Ever Travels Too Far”: The Climate Novel and Our Limited Imagination
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2025) 124 (1): 77–93.
Published: 01 January 2025
..., or political systems? Authors of climate fiction show that environmental futures depend on our ability to renegotiate the limit between the “realistic” and the inconceivable, the boundary that strategically constrains our imagination and that limits social and environmental progress. How, authors ask, thereby...
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An Anatomy of the Race Icon: Joe Louis as Fetish-Idol in Postmodern America
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2010) 109 (2): 279–312.
Published: 01 April 2010
... of racial identity from a public icon to a collective political body. Focusing on the public response to the controversial 1986 Detroit statue Monument to Joe Louis , sculpted by Mexican American artist Robert Graham, the essay suggests that public art created on behalf of cross-racial healing most...
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Agamben: Aesthetics, Potentiality, and Life
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2008) 107 (1): 107–120.
Published: 01 January 2008
... politics. It is through humanity's potential not to realize its proper being—evidenced both in the horrors of the death camp and in the fall of art from its proper essence—that we also understand what humanity ought to be. This essay argues that Agamben's appeal to potentiality harbors a normative...
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José Carlos Mariátegui and the Russian Revolution: Global Modernity and Cosmopolitan Socialism in Latin America
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2017) 116 (4): 727–744.
Published: 01 October 2017
... demonstrates, this cosmopolitanism was particularly motivated by the Russian Revolution, which for Mariátegui was both a key element in his adherence to Marxism and a powerful vector that led him to internationalize his interests and envisage a broad spectrum of cultural and political phenomena throughout...
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The Arabic Connection in Articulating North African Modernity in Art
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2010) 109 (3): 529–543.
Published: 01 July 2010
... modern art were more than
an acknowledgment of an Islamic past; rather,
they were an understanding of a new political
South Atlantic Quarterly 109:3, Summer 2010
DOI 10.1215/00382876-2010-004 ©...
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