Imagination Besieged - Coloniality, Violence, Feminism in Mediterranean Art Literature

Imagination Besieged grapples with the legacies of colonialism and the histories of violence that define the past and present of the Mediterranean in the regional artistic and cultural production.

List of contents

0. Like Stubborn Fires
1. Sciarra (After Angela) I
2. Sciarra (After Angela) II
3. Movement I: From Grief to Grievance
4. Movement II: Even When They Are Dangerous, Examine the Heart of Those Machines You Hate
5. Colorless Knickknacks (After Fanon)
6. Living With Ruins
7. The Death Deal
8. Imagination Besieged
9. Movements at Sea: (Annotations on "Off You Shore Paper Trail")
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Federica Bueti is the author of Critical Poetics of Feminist Refusals: Voicing Dissent Across Differences (Routledge, 2022). She is a lecturer of anthropology at UniCal, Reggio Calabria, Italy, and a Writing Tutor at the MA of Fine Art at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She has wide-ranging interests in decolonial, feminist, and Mediterranean literature, with particular focus on the decolonial feminist poetics and aesthetics of refusal.

Summary

Imagination Besieged grapples with the legacies of colonialism and the histories of violence that define the past and present of the Mediterranean in the regional artistic and cultural production.

Product details

• Authors: Federica Bueti, Bueti Federica
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.02.2025
• EAN: 9781032795423
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3279542-3
• No. of pages: 112
• Series: Routledge Focus on Literature
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Europe, Poetry, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Feminism & feminist theory, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: postcolonial literature