The De-Africanization of African Art

This book argues for a radical new approach to thinking about art and creativity in Africa, challenging outdated normative discourses about Africa's creative heritage.

Autorentext

Denis Ekpo is Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of multidisciplinary Comparative Literature Programme, at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. He is originator of the concept of Post-Africanism and author of Neither Anti-Imperialist Anger nor the Tears of the Good White man (2004) and Philosophie et Litterature africaine (2004). He has published extensively in journals such as Textual Practice, Neohelicon, The Literary Griot, Social Semiotics, and Third Text. He is a Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study, South Africa. His current book project is titled 'Forget Fanon: Post-Africanism and the Closing of the Colonial Story in Africa.'

Pfunzo Sidogi is a lecturer in the Department of Fine and Studio Arts, Faculty of Arts and Design at the Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa.

Inhalt

Preface: Pfunzo Sidogi 1: Africa Mis-Travelling to Modernity: From Modern African Art to African Modernism Denis Ekpo 2: Manifesto for Post-African Art Denis Ekpo 3: The New African Movement and the Artists it Inspired: The Early Post-Africanists Pfunzo Sidogi 4: Africanity, Litigation Aesthetics, and Openness to Being *Chielozona Eze *5: Post-Africanism as Fluid, Feminist and Agentic Alterity Runette Kruger 6:* The Ruses of the Afrophilia Condition Thabang Molatelo Monoa*