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008			200618s2020 inu o 00 0 eng d
010			_z 2020940866
020			_a9781557539359
020			_z1557539359
020			_z9781557539342
035			_a(OCoLC)1181916915
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
100	1		_aHadchity, Therese Kaspersen, _d1963- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Making of a Caribbean Avant-Garde : _bPostmodernism as Post-nationalism / _cTherese Kaspersen Hadchity.
264		1	_aWest Lafayette : _bPurdue University Press, _c2020.
264		3	_aBaltimore, Md. : _bProject MUSE, _c2020
264		4	_c©2020.
300			_a1 online resource (322 pages).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aComparative cultural studies
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_a"Focusing on the Anglophone Caribbean, The Making of a Caribbean Avant-Garde describes the rise and gradual consolidation of the visual arts avant-garde, which came to local and international attention in the 1990s. The book is centered on the critical and aesthetic strategies employed by this avant-garde to repudiate the previous generation's commitment to modernism and anti-colonialism. In three sections, it highlights the many converging factors, which have pushed this avant-garde to the forefront of the region's contemporary scene, and places it all in the context of growing dissatisfaction with the post-colonial state and its cultural policies. This generational transition has manifested itself not only in a departure from "traditional" in favor of "new" media (i.e., installation, performance, and video rather than painting and sculpture), but also in the advancement of a "post-nationalist postmodernism," which reaches for diasporic and cosmopolitan frames of reference. Section one outlines the features of a preceding "Creole modernism" and explains the different guises of post-nationalism in the region's contemporary art. In section two, its momentum is connected to the proliferation of independent art spaces and transnational networks, which connect artists across and beyond the region and open up possibilities unavailable to earlier generations. Section three demonstrates the impact of this conceptual and organizational evolution on the selection and exhibition of Caribbean art in the metropole. The Making of a Caribbean Avant-Garde is a case study in post-colonial cultural dynamics. It delivers an engaged and polemic portrayal of a generational and critical transition, which has brought a segment of the Anglophone Caribbean arts community together and successfully drawn it into the international arena, but which also, it is argued, has problematic political corollaries"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/77219/
945			_aProject MUSE - 2020 Complete
945			_aProject MUSE - 2020 Global Cultural Studies
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