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aesthetic practices
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anti-fascist resistance
Atlantic studies
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Avant-garde
avant-garde practices
Canary Islands
Caribbean
Caribbean studies
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cinema
cinematic production
colonialism
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cosmopolitanism
critical debate
cultural exchange
cultural production
cultural studies
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exotic insularity
exoticism
insular Atlantic
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literary studies
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political resistance
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self-exoticism
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surrealism
the historical avant-gardes
visual arts
visual culture studies
Product details
- ISBN 9781509561674
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 25 Oct 2024
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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On Tropical Grounds develops a new approach to the avant-garde and Surrealism in Caribbean and Atlantic studies. The book examines how islands and their tropical associations figure in the cultural and political imaginaries of the Caribbean and the Atlantic, and identifies genealogies of local responses to continental fantasies of exotic insularity. Examining written and visual works that reflect on the Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean and the Canary Islands, as well as critical debates around discourses of insularity in island and metropolitan spaces, this book considers notions of ethnic purity, originality, imitation, appropriation, cosmopolitanism, and self-exoticism to challenge the idea that avant-garde practices were pre-eminently urban and metropolitan cultural forms.
The book argues that attention to the relational dimension implicit in exchanges around ideas of anticolonial struggle, radical social transformation, and anti-fascist resistance should inform analyses of cultural production in Caribbean and Atlantic insular spaces. On Tropical Grounds develops a persuasive critical model for the investigation of politically and aesthetically situated archipelagic relations that transgresses disciplinary boundaries and reconfigures our conception of the avant-garde as a global movement that was overdetermined by racial, gender, and colonial conflicts.
This book will be of value to anyone interested in Caribbean and Atlantic studies, avant-garde and visual culture studies, and literary and cultural studies.
Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián is Professor of Hispanic and Visual Culture Studies at Durham University.
