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Experiments in Exile: C. L. R. James, Hélio Oiticica, and the Aesthetic Sociality of Blackness

Experiments in Exile: C. L. R. James, Hélio Oiticica, and the Aesthetic Sociality of Blackness

Harris, Laura

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Series: Commonalities

Literary CriticismCaribbean, Latin American & South American ArtGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0823279790
ISBN13: 9780823279791
Publisher: Amer Literatures Initiative
Published: Aug 7 2018
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Comparing radical experiments undertaken by Trinidadian writer C. L. R. James and Brazilian artist Hélio 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.

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