Experiments in Exile: C. L. R. James, Hélio Oiticica, and the Aesthetic Sociality of Blackness

by Harris, Laura
ISBN: 9780823279791
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Comparing radical experiments undertaken by Trinidadian writer C. L. R. James and Brazilian artist H lio Oiticica, Experiments in Exile charts their common desire to reconceive citizenship. Laura Harris shows how James and Oiticica gravitate toward and attempt to relay the ongoing renewal of dissident, dissonant social forms that constitute what she calls "the aesthetic sociality of blackness," in the barrack-yards of Port-of-Spain and the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the assembly lines of Detroit and the streets of the New York, ultimately challenging rather than rehabilitating normative conceptions of citizens and polities as well as authors and artworks.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Harris, Laura
  • ISBN: 9780823279791
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.90 x 0.70
  • Number Of Pages: 232
  • Publication Year: 2018
Language: English