East Baton Rouge Parish Library

Afro-Atlantic histories, edited by Adriano Pedrosa, Tomás Toledo ; texts by Adriano Pedrosa, Ayrson Heráclito, Deborah Willis, Hélio Menezes, Kanitra Fletcher, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Tomás Toledo, Vivian A. Crockett

eng

Includes bibliographical references

illustrationsmapsportraits

no index present

non fiction

Afro-Atlantic histories

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edited by Adriano Pedrosa, Tomás Toledo ; texts by Adriano Pedrosa, Ayrson Heráclito, Deborah Willis, Hélio Menezes, Kanitra Fletcher, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Tomás Toledo, Vivian A. Crockett

"Afro-Atlantic Histories" brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that express and analyze the ebbs and flows between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe. The book is motivated by the desire and need to draw parallels, frictions, and dialogues around the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories--their experiences, creations, worshipping, and philosophy. The so-called Black Atlantic, to use the term coined by Paul Gilroy, is geography lacking precise borders, a fluid field where African experiences invade and occupy other nations, territories, and cultures. The plural and polyphonic quality of "histórias" is also of note; unlike the English "histories," the word in Portuguese carries a double meaning that encompasses both fiction and nonfiction, personal, political, economic, and cultural, as well as mythological narratives

Afro-Atlantic histories at Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand -- Afro-Atlantic histories at Instituto Tomie Ohtake -- Afro-Atlantic histories at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. -- Editorial note -- History, histórias / Adriano Pedrosa -- Slave markets: when resignation is a form of resistance / Lilia Moritz Schwarcz -- Visualizing slavery: image and text / Deborah Willis -- Occupy self-portraiture / Kanitra Fletcher -- A place to call home: reflections on transnational translations / Vivian A. Crockett -- 1. Maps and margins -- 2. Emancipations -- 3. Everyday lives -- 4. Rites and rhythms -- 5. Portraits -- 6. Resistances and activisms -- 7. Routes and trances: Africas, Jamaica, Bahia -- 8. Afro-Atlantic modernisms -- Selected bibliography