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Author:   Sarah Nuttall
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 18.00cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 22.70cm
Weight:   1.220kg
ISBN:  

9780822339076

ISBN 10:   0822339072
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   08 January 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Rethinking Beauty / Sarah Nuttall 6 Picasso, Africa and the Schemata of Difference / Simon Gikanki 30 Variations on the Beautiful in Congolese Worlds of Sound / Achille Mbembe 94 Two Thoughts of Drawing Beauty / William Kentridge 94 The Place of Beauty: Reflections on Elaine Scarry and Zakes Mda / Rita Barnard 102 Quille Liberte: Art, Beauty and the Grammars of Resistance in Doula / Dominique Malaquais 122 Fresh Stories / Pippa Stein 164 The Love of the Body: Ousmane Sow and Beauty / Els van der Plas 188 Inheritance / Mark Gevisser 204 Let's Eat: Banquet Aesthetics and Social Epicurism / Celestin Monga 224 Let's Cook / Francois Verges 240 On the Slipperiness of Food / Cheryl-Ann Michael 256 Afro-Aesthetics in Brazil / Patricia Pinho 266 Yoruba Aesthetics and Trans-Atlantic Imaginaries / Kamari Maxine Clarke 290 Urban Imaging: The Friche Waiting to Happen / Rodney Place 316 Things Ugly: Ghanaian Popular Painting / Michelle Gilbert 340 Two Stories: Old Man with Garden at the Rear End of Time and The Fat Indian Girl / Mia Couto 372 Seeing the Familiar: Notes on Mia Couto / Isabel Hofmeyr 384 Notes 392 Index 409

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Finally, a book that explores African and African diasporic concepts of aesthetics with depth and theoretical sophistication. A marvelous collection of well thought-out and finely crafted essays by a diverse group of scholars, artists, and other practitioners on concepts of beauty and ugliness as they relate to artistic and aesthetic practices in Africa and its diaspora. An important reference book and a must read for the specialist and the general public alike. Salah M. Hassan, Director, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University

Author Information

Sarah Nuttall is Associate Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is a coeditor of Senses of Culture: South African Culture Studies; Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa; and Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature, and History in South Africa and Australia.

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