Experiments in Exile: C. L. R. James, H駘io Oiticica, and the Aesthetic Sociality of Blackness (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780823279791)

Comparing radical experiments undertaken by Trinidadian writer C. L. R. James and Brazilian artist H駘io 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.

Author: Laura Harris
ISBN-10: 0823279790
ISBN-13: 9780823279791
Publisher: American Literatures Initiative
Language: English
Published: 08/07/2018
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d