'In the wake of failed states, growing economic and political inequality, and the ongoing US- and NATO-led wars for resources, security, and economic dominance worldwide, contemporary artists are revisiting former European colonies, considering past injustices as they haunt the living yet remain repressed in European consciousness. With great timeliness, projects by Sven Augustijnen, Vincent Meessen, Zarina Bhimji, Renzo Martens, and Pieter Hugo have emerged during the fiftieth anniversary of independence for many African countries, inspiring a kind of “reverse migration”—a return to the postcolony, which drives an ethico-political as well as aesthetic set of imperatives: to learn to live with ghosts, and to do so more justly.' - from back cover.
Includes a bibliography.
Includes a bibliography.
Access level
Onsite
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publisher
Location code
REF.DET
Language
English
Keywords
Publication/Creation date
2013
No of pages
174
ISBN / ISSN
9783943365429
No of copies
1
Content type
monograph
Chapter headings
Introduction Enter: The Ghosts
1 Seven Augustijnen's Spectropoetics
2 A Colonial Hauntology: Vinvent Meessen's Vita Nova
3 Ghostly Affect: Zarlina Bhimji's Yellow Patch
4 The Haunting Renzo Martens's Enjoy Poverty
5 A Postcolonial Monstrum: The Photographs of Pieter Hugo
Conclusion: Living with Ghosts, Justly
Return to the Postcolony: Specters of Colonialism in Contemporary Art
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