TY  - BOOK
AU  - Demos,T.J.
AU  - Whitman-Salkin,Leah
TI  - Return to the postcolony: specters of colonialism in contemporary art 
SN  - 3943365425
AV  - NX180.P67 D46 2013
U1  - 701.03 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Berlin
PB  - Sternberg Press
KW  - Postcolonialism and the arts
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - Africa
KW  - Documentary films
KW  - Documentary photography
KW  - Colonial influence
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction: Enter: the ghosts -- Sven Augustijnen's Spectropoetics -- A colonial hauntology : Vincent Meessen's Vita nova -- Ghostly affect : Zarina Bhimji's Yellow patch -- The haunting : Renzo Martens's Enjoy poverty -- A postcolonial monstrum : the photographs of Pieter Hugo -- Conclusion: Living with ghosts, justly
N2  - In the wake of failed states, growing economic and political inequality, and the ongoing US- and NATO-led wars for resources, security, and economic dominance worldwide, contemporary artists are revisiting former European colonies, considering past injustices as they haunt the living yet remain repressed in European consciousness. With great timeliness, projects by Sven Augustijnen, Vincent Meessen, Zarina Bhimji, Renzo Martens, and Pieter Hugo have emerged during the fiftieth anniversary of independence for many African countries, inspiring a kind of "reverse migration"--A return to the postcolony, which drives an ethico-political as well as aesthetic set of imperatives: to learn to live with ghosts, and to do so more justly. -- Publisher
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