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This book develops a critical intervention in the politics of time of anticolonial aesthetics. The chapters argue that anticolonialism should not be bounded to a specific historical moment; rather, it should be seen as a fertile, radical tradition going beyond the specific event of decolonization and informing utopian and radical futures.
List of contents
Introduction: The Temporal Politics of Anticolonial Aesthetics
1. Discordant Trajectories of the (Post-)Soviet (Post)Colonial Aesthetics
2. Insolence, Indolence, and the Ayitian free Black
3. Futures in the Presents: Decolonial Visions of the Haitian Revolution
4. C.L.R. James and the Genealogies of Socially Transformative Aesthetics
5. Memorializing Masculinity? Gendering the Iconography of French Colonialism and Anticolonial Resistance in Martinique and Guadeloupe
6. Rewriting Solidarities in Juxtaposition: The Poetic and the Chronopolitics of Bandung
7. Whose Star?: The Ongoing Cultural Present and Futures of Algeria's Revolution(s)
8. Cosmopolitan Repair: Reclaiming and Restoring Cultural Heritage in Postcolonial Nigeria
9. Anticolonial Aesthetics: Towards Eco-Cinema
10. The Limits of the Anthropocene: Anticolonial Humanity in Kidlat Tahimik's
Mababangong Bangungot and Souleymane Cissé's
Yeelen 11. Clasping Together the Magical and the Menial: Decolonizing Aesthetics
About the author
Carlos Garrido Castellano is Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at University College Cork, where he coordinates the BA programme in Portuguese Studies. He is also Associate Researcher at the Visual Identities in Art and Design (VIAD), University of Johannesburg. He is the author of
Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art (Rutgers University Press, 2019),
Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future (SUNY Press, 2021) (which became an free open access publication in 2023),
Literary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System (Routledge, 2023),
Chorus: Sonic Politics of the Carnivalesque in Tragic Times (forthcoming 2025), as well as of two other monographs in Spanish and one in Portuguese. He also edited
Curating and the Legacies of Colonialism in Contemporary Iberia, Decentring the Genealogies of Art Activism, and
The Afterlives of Anticolonial Aesthetics. He is also Principal Investigator of the IRC Laureate Consolidator Project "Assessing the Contemporary Art Novel in Spanish and Portuguese: Cultural Labour, Personal Identification and the Materialisation of Alternative Art Worlds" ARTFICTIONS, which will run from September 2023 to September 2027.
Patrick Crowley is Established Professor of French and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Galway. He writes on aesthetic form particularly within colonial and postcolonial contexts and with a special focus on contemporary Algerian cultural production. His publications include His monograph,
Pierre Michon: The Afterlife of Names was published in 2007. His other work consists of a range of articles and edited and co-edited volumes including
Formless, with Paul Hegarty, (2005);
Mediterranean Travels, with Noreen Humble and Silvia Ross (2011);
Postcolonial Poetics: Genre and Form, with Jane Hiddleston, (2011). In 2016 with Megan MacDonald, he co-edited an issue of
Contemporary French and Francophone Studies titled 'The Contemporary
Roman Maghrébin: Aesthetics, Politics, Production 2000-2015' and published a scholarly edition of
L'Exotisme: la littérature coloniale (by Louis Cario and Charles Régismanset, [1911]. The edited volume
Algeria: Nation, Culture and Transnationalism 1988-2015 was published by Liverpool University Press in 2017 as was a thematic issue of
Studies in Travel Writing titled 'Travel, Colonialism and Encounters with the Maghreb: Algeria'. In 2020, he co-edited
What Forms Can Do with Shirley Jordan.
