Tropical aesthetics of black modernism / Samantha A. Noël.

"Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism considers how Caribbean and American artists of the early twentieth century are responding to the colonial and hegemonic regimes through visual and performative tropicalist representation. By proposing an alternative understanding of the tropics, this book dem...

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Uniform Title:Visual arts of Africa and its diasporas.
Main Author: Noël, Samantha A., 1977- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Series:Visual arts of Africa and its diasporas.
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Physical Description:xiii, 250 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, color plates ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Tropicality, Modernity, and the African Diaspora -- American Tropical Modernism: The African Diasporic Reaches of Aaron Douglas's Landscapes -- Brazenly Avant-Garde: Wifredo Lam's Transformation of Cuba's Tropical Terrain -- Early Twentieth-Century Trinidad Carnival: Tropicality and Strategies of Space-Making -- Pan-African Geographies in Motion: The Tropical Performances of Maya Angelou and Josephine Baker -- The Black Body, Tropicality, and the Black Speculative. 
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