Slavery in art and literature : approaches to trauma, memory, and visuality / / Birgit Haehnel, Melanie Ulz, eds

• Pubblicazione: Berlin : , : Frank & Timme, , [2010]; ©2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Disciplina: 704.9/49326
• Soggetto topico: Slavery in art; Art, Modern; Psychic trauma in art; Collective memory in art; Visual communication in art; Literature, Modern - Black authors - History and criticism; Slavery in literature; Psychic trauma in literature; Collective memory in literature
• Altri autori: HaehnelBirgit UlzMelanie
• Note generali: Based on an international conference held Oct. 26, 2006 at the Centre for Postcolonial and Gender Studies, University of Trier.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Acknowledgements""; ""Slavery, Trauma and Visual Representation""; ""Sklaverei, Trauma und Bildlichkeit""; ""Slavery in Art and Literature""; ""Sklaverei in Kunst und Literatur""; ""Trauma, Narrative and the Art of Witnessing""; ""On and Beyond the Colour Line""; ""Traces of Traumatisation in the Visual Arts""; ""The Black Code""; ""The Guilty Ship""; ""Reflecting Slavery in Design: Towards a Contemporary View*""; ""Trauma and Victory; Absence and Memory in Haitian Art""; ""The Theme of Slavery in Contemporary Cuban Art""; ""To Be Looked At""
• Sommario/riassunto: Long description: Slavery, both in its historical and modern forms, continues to be a matter of undiminished political and social relevance. This is mirrored by an increasing interest in scholarly research as well as by critical statements from within the field of contemporary art. The present volume is designed to bring together artists and scholars from various fields of study discussing trauma and visuality, or more precisely, memory and denial of traumatic history within visual discourses. The purpose of this project is to put the phenomenon of contemporary art production dealing with the issue of slavery into a wider, interdisciplinary and transcultural context. The book covers current case studies focusing on different media and including visual, literary and performative approaches of dealing with the history of slavery in West-African, American and European cultures.; Biographical note: Birgit Haehnel (Ph.D., University of Trier, 2004) lives as an independent scholar of art history in Vienna. She is the author of Regelwerk und Umgestaltung. Der Nomadismusdiskurs in der Kunst nach 1945 (2007). She has published extensively on contemporary art and on art of the 17th, 19th and 20th centuries with a special focus on gender and post-colonialism. Melanie Ulz (Ph.D., University of Trier, 2005) is an art historian and lives in Berlin. She is the author of Auf dem Schlachtfeld des Empire. Männlichkeitskonzepte in der Bildproduktion zu Napoleons Ägyptenfeldzug (Marburg, 2008). She has published on art and visual culture of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries with a focus on gender and postcolonial theory.
• Titolo autorizzato: Slavery in art and literature
• ISBN: 3-86596-762-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813462003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Kulturwissenschaften (Berlin, Germany) ; ; Bd. 6.