Living Cargo: How Black Britain Performs Its Past (PostHumanities) - Softcover

Blevins, Steven

 
9780816697168: Living Cargo: How Black Britain Performs Its Past (PostHumanities)
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ISBN 10: 0816697167 ISBN 13: 9780816697168
Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, 2016

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Offering a wide-ranging study of contemporary literature, film, visual art, and performance by writers and artists who live and work in the United Kingdom but also maintain strong ties to postcolonial Africa and the Caribbean, Living Cargo explores how contemporary black British culture makers have engaged with the institutional archives of colonialism and the Atlantic slave trade in order to reimagine blackness in British history and to make claims for social and political redress. 

Steven Blevins calls this reimagining “unhousing history”—an aesthetic and political practice that animates and improvises on the institutional archive, repurposing it toward different ends and new possibilities. He discusses the work of novelists, including Caryl Phillips, Fred D’Aguiar, David Dabydeen, and Bernardine Evaristo; filmmakers Isaac Julien and Inge Blackman; performance poet Dorothea Smartt; fashion designer Ozwald Boateng; artists Hew Locke and Yinka Shonibare; and the urban redevelopment of Bristol, England, which unfolded alongside the public demand to remember the city’s slave-trading past. 

Living Cargo argues that the colonial archive is neither static nor residual but emergent. By reassembling historical fragments and traces consolidated in the archive, these artists not only perform a kind of counter-historiography, they also imagine future worlds that might offer amends for the atrocities of the past.

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Steven R. Blevins is a writer and teacher living in northern California.

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Verlag
University of Minnesota Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
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0816697167
ISBN 13 
9780816697168
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368
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