Author: Jade Munslow Ong File Type: pdf This book works across established categories of modernism and postcolonialism in order to radically revise the periods, places, and topics traditionally associated with anti-colonialism and aesthetic experimentation in African literature. The book is the first account of Olive Schreiner as a theorist and practitioner of modernist form advancing towards an emergent postcolonialism. The book draws on and broadens discussions in and around the blossoming field of global modernist studies by interrogating the conventionally accepted genealogy of development that positions Europe and America as the sites of innovation. It provides an original examination of the relationships between metaphor, postcolonialism, and modernist experimentation by showing how politically and aesthetically innovative African forms rely on allegorical structures, in contrast to the symbolism dominant in Euro-American modernism. An original theoretical concept of the role of primitivism and allegory within the context of modernism and associated critical theory is proposed through the integration of postcolonial, Marxist, and ecocritical approaches to literature. The book provides original readings of Schreiners three novels, Undine, The Story of An African Farm, and From Man to Man, in light of the new theory of primitivism in African literature by directly addressing the issue of narrative form. This argument is contextualised in relation to the work of other Southern African authors, in whose writings the impact of Schreiners politics and aesthetics can be traced. These authors include J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Doris Lessing, Solomon T. Plaatje, and Zoe Wicomb, amongst others. This book brings the most current debates in modernist studies, ecocriticism, and primitivism into the field of postcolonial studies and contributes to a widening of the debates surrounding gender, race, empire, and modernism. **About the Author Jade Munslow Ong is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Salford, UK.

Author: Zeena Feldman File Type: pdf In an era of unprecedented global mobility, artists face unique challenges. How does cultural context affect the interpretation of art? What makes artists work transnational or national in character, and how will their visibility be impacted by either label? Art and the Politics of Visibility questions these dynamics, asking how the dissemination of visual culture on a global scale affects art and its institutions. Taking Shanghai-based artist Yang Fudongs practice as a point of departure, this volume focuses on how politically charged images produced in contemporary art, cinema, news media and fashion become widely consumed or marginalised. Through case studies of artists and institutions including Isaac Julien, Wafaa Bilal, Jeremy Deller and the itinerant biennale Manifesta, the book illuminates the relationship between visibility, politics and identity in contemporary art.**

Author: Manu Vimalassery File Type: pdf

Author: Kevin Greene File Type: pdf This bestselling book has firmly established itself as the most accessible guide to archaeology available. It features* an explanation to the discovery and excavation of sites* a helpful outline of the major dating methods* clear explanations of scientific techniques* new theories and current controversies* explanatory diagrams and photos* guidance on further reading and up-to-date bibliography. This bestselling book has firmly established itself as the most accessible guide to archaeology available. It features * an explanation to the discovery and excavation of sites * a helpful outline of the major dating methods * clear explanations of scientific techniques * new theories and current controversies * explanatory diagrams and photos * guidance on further reading and up-to-date bibliography.