Download or read book Learning at the Museum Frontiers written by Viv Golding and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Learning at the Museum Frontiers, Viv Golding argues that the museum has the potential to function as a frontier - a zone where learning is created, new identities are forged and new connections made between disparate groups and their own histories. She draws on a range of theoretical perspectives including Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics, Foucauldian discourse on space and power, and postcolonial and Black feminist theory, as well as her own professional experience in museum education over a ten-year period, applying these ideas to a wide range of museum contexts. The book offers an important theoretical and empirical contribution to the debate on the value of museums and what they can contribute to society. The author reveals the radical potential for museums to tackle injustice and social exclusion, challenge racism, enhance knowledge and promote truth.
Download or read book African Cosmos written by Christine M. Kreamer and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking scholarly publication, accompanying an exhibition organized by the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, African Cosmos: Stellar Arts brings together exceptional works of art, dating from ancient times to the present, and essays by leading scholars and contemporary artists to consider African cultural astronomy: creativity and artistic practice in Africa as it is linked to celestial bodies and atmospheric phenomena. African concepts of the universe are intensely personal, placing human beings in relation to the earth and sky, and with the sun, moon, and stars. At the core of creation myths and the foundation of moral values, celestial bodies are often accorded sacred capacities and are part of the “cosmological map” that allows humans to chart their course through life.
Download or read book Igbo in the Atlantic World written by Toyin Falola and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Igbo are one of the most populous ethnic groups in Nigeria and are perhaps best known and celebrated in the work of Chinua Achebe. In this landmark collection on Igbo society and arts, Toyin Falola and Raphael Chijioke Njoku have compiled a detailed and innovative examination of the Igbo experience in Africa and in the diaspora. Focusing on institutions and cultural practices, the volume covers the enslavement, middle passage, and American experience of the Igbo as well as their return to Africa and aspects of Igbo language, society, and cultural arts. By employing a variety of disciplinary perspectives, this volume presents a comprehensive view of how the Igbo were integrated into the Atlantic world through the slave trade and slavery, the transformations of Igbo identities and culture, and the strategies for resistance employed by the Igbo in the New World. Moving beyond descriptions of generic African experiences, this collection includes 21 essays by prominent scholars throughout the world.
Download or read book The Comic Imagination in Modern African Literature and Cinema written by Maik Nwosu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a seminal study that significantly expands the interdisciplinary discourse on African literature and cinema by exploring Africa’s under-visited carnivalesque poetics of laughter. Focusing on modern African literature as well as contemporary African cinema, particularly the direct-to-video Nigerian film industry known as Nollywood, the book examines the often-neglected aesthetics of the African comic imagination. In modern African literature, which sometimes creatively traces a path back to African folklore, and in Nollywood — with its aesthetic relationship to Onitsha Market Literature — the pertinent styles range from comic simplicitas to comic magnitude with the facilitation of language, characterization, and plot by a poetics of laughter or lightness as an important aspect of style. The poetics at work is substantially carnivalesque, a comic preference or tendency that is attributable, in different contexts, to a purposeful comic sensibility or an unstructured but ingrained or virtual comic mode. In the best instances of this comic vision, the characteristic laughter or lightness can facilitate a revaluation or reappreciation of the world, either because of the aesthetic structure of signification or the consequent chain of signification. This referentiality or progressive signification is an important aspect of the poetics of laughter as the African comic imagination variously reflects, across genres, both the festival character of comedy and its pedagogical value. This book marks an important contribution to African literature, postcolonial literature, world literature, comic imagination, poetics, critical theory, and African cinema.
Download or read book African Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Arab American Artists written by Fayeq S. Oweis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-12-30 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich history and culture of the Arab American people is found in the passionate works of its artists. Whether they be traditional media such as painting and calligraphy, or more sophisticated media such as digital work and installation, the pieces represent the beauty of heritage, the struggles of growing up in war-torn countries, the identity conflicts of female artists in male-dominated societies, and the issues surrounding migration to a Western culture very different from one's own. Many of the artists included here, though their works appear in museums and galleries throughout the world, have never before been featured in a reference book. Interviews conducted by the author provide a personal look into the experiences and creative processes of these artists. Artists included: *Etel Adnan *Wasma Chorbachi *Nihad Dukhan *Kahlil Gibran *Sari Khoury *Emily Jacir *Sari Khoury *Mamoun Sakkal *Mary Tuma *Madiha Umar *Afaf Zurayk
Download or read book Speculative Science Fiction written by Ernest N. Emenyonu and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Over the past two decades, there has been a resurgence in the writing of African and African diaspora speculative and science fiction writing. Discussions around the 'rise' of science-fiction and fantasy have led to a push-back by writers and scholars who have suggested that this is not a new phenomenon in African literature. This collection focuses on the need to recalibrate ways of reading and categorising this grenre of African writing through critical examinations both of classics such as Kojo Laing's Woman of the Aeroplanes (1988) and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's oeuvre, as well as more recent fiction from writers including Nnedi Okorafor, Namwali Serpell and Masande Ntshanga."--Back cover.
Download or read book OBI REGENT of the INVINCIBLE written by Emokiniovo Edwin and published by E.E Scripts. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delve into world of folklore fiction. Marachi, the high priest over the five coupled kingdoms of Nrì have been tainted with the bracelets of wisdom and power, which was bestowed unto him by the FATHER OF ALL; NNA-NIILE. In an era of great campaign waged against the five allied nations, a paragon must rise up to take on this great terror, born of deception—from the fallen prince of the sky; GHANTO NKE-DARA. Famine! In the four corners of the earth; ỤWÀ. 3047 B.D. IN THE AGE OF THE FALLEN ONE; GHANTO NKE-DARA. THE PRINCE OF THE FALLEN now holds claim over the sky-throne of ỤWÀ, and with its authority, he plagued the nations of her inhabitants with drought and hunger. For his inherent antipathy towards them. Decades passed, ỤWÀ suffered barrenness under the oppression of her spurious prince. Then, a time ensued, ỤWÀ and her inhabitants cried up to the gates of URIUN, to put an end to this monstrosity for which the fallen prince of the sky had placed upon them. To aid ỤWÀ in her unprecedented adversity. NNA-NIILE: THE FATHER OF ALL THINGS, and the Chí-nà-ékè [THE CREATOR] over the universe, offered Humanity the bracelets of WISDOM AND POWER, to harness HIS 7 VIRTUES, for which together are called—THE FORCE OF NNA-NIILE. The FORCE OF NNA-NIILE is a cosmic energy from which his universe emanated from. And like two faces of a coin, the FORCE OF NNA-NIILE is good and evil—[THE COMFORTER and NEMESIS]. One can only possess either, but neither both, except the divine nature—NNA-NIILE and his LIGHT OF GLORY. And so it began. The end of the Fallen one, and the vindication of humanity.
Download or read book Museum Frictions written by Ivan Karp and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-07 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third volume in a bestselling series on culture, society, and museums examines the effects of globalization on contemporary museum, heritage, and exhibition practices.
Download or read book African Dance written by Kariamu Welsh-Asante and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient tradition of African dance has influenced dance styles all over the world. It is used to commemorate many annual ceremonies and activities, such as rites of passage and the harvest, and it is also an important form of recreation, religious expression, and storytelling. In African Dance, Second Edition, the varied cultures of Africa and their respective dances are explored, along with the effects that colonialism had on the art form.
Download or read book Art Without Borders written by Ben-Ami Scharfstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People all over the world make art and take pleasure in it, and they have done so for millennia. But acknowledging that art is a universal part of human experience leads us to some big questions: Why does it exist? Why do we enjoy it? And how do the world’s different art traditions relate to art and to each other? Art Without Borders is an extraordinary exploration of those questions, a profound and personal meditation on the human hunger for art and a dazzling synthesis of the whole range of inquiry into its significance. Esteemed thinker Ben-Ami Scharfstein’s encyclopedic erudition is here brought to bear on the full breadth of the world of art. He draws on neuroscience and psychology to understand the way we both perceive and conceive of art, including its resistance to verbal exposition. Through examples of work by Indian, Chinese, European, African, and Australianartists, Art Without Borders probes the distinction between accepting a tradition and defying it through innovation, which leads to a consideration of the notion of artistic genius. Continuing in this comparative vein, Scharfstein examines the mutual influence of European and non-European artists. Then, through a comprehensive evaluation of the world’s major art cultures, he shows how all of these individual traditions are gradually, but haltingly, conjoining into a single current of universal art. Finally, he concludes by looking at the ways empathy and intuition can allow members of one culture to appreciate the art of another. Lucid, learned, and incomparably rich in thought and detail, Art Without Borders is a monumental accomplishment, on par with the artistic achievements Scharfstein writes about so lovingly in its pages.
Download or read book Re visions written by Karel Arnaut and published by Horniman Museum Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gods of American Icons written by Lynda B. Ukemenam and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Race Women of Color and the State University System written by Vivian Yenika-Agbaw and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race, Women of Color, and the State University System focuses on challenges women of color experience or have experienced while teaching or pursuing administrative duties within the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. The book systematically examines how women of color —- administrators, faculty, and staff —- cope with the demands of the profession, their disciplines, the expectations from the system, and the isolation that comes with working in institutions and/or environments that are predominately all white. The book identifies challenges that are unique to the state system, although they may be applicable to the academy in general. Contributors, through their testimonies and shared experiences, provide academic tools and strategies to navigate the academy successfully.
Download or read book Exploring the Fantastic written by Ina Batzke and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2018-03-31 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fantastic represents a wide and heterogeneous field in literary, cultural, and media studies. Encompassing some of the field's foremost voices such as Fred Botting and Larissa Lai, as well as exciting new perspectives by junior scholars, this volume offers a mosaic of the fantastic now. The contributions pinpoint and discuss current developments in theory and practice by offering enlightening snapshots of the contemporary Anglophone landscape of research in the fantastic. The authors' arguments and analyses thus give new impetus to the field's theoretical and methodological approaches, its textual materials, its main interests, and its crucial findings.
Download or read book African Theatres and Performances written by Osita Okagbue and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Theatres & Performances looks at four specific performance forms in Africa and uses this to question the tendency to employ western frames of reference to analyze and appreciate theatrical performance. The book examines: masquerade theatre in Eastern Nigeria the trance and possession ritual theatre of the Hausa of Northern Nigeria the musical and oral tradition of the Mandinka of Senegal comedy and satire of the Bamana in Mali. Osita Okagbue describes each performance in detail and discusses how each is made, who it is made by and for, and considers the relationship between maker and viewer and the social functions of performance and theatre in African societies. The discussions are based on first-hand observation and interviews with performers and spectators. African Theatres & Performances gives a fascinating account of these practices, carefully tracing the ways in which performances and theatres are unique and expressive of their cultural context.
Download or read book The Wrong Turn written by Tracey Chizoba Fletcher and published by Pen It + ORM. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dark fantasy adventure, an aimless young man finds his soul put to the ultimate test in the Land of the Dead. At twenty-eight years old, Chike wasn’t so much living as merely existing. He took each day as it came, with no particular plan or purpose. But now Chike faces a choice that could be described as life-or-death . . . if it weren’t for the fact that he was already in the Land of the Dead . . . Chike had been lost in thought when a simple wrong turn brought him to an abandoned house. By the time he felt the strange sensation of being transported, it was already too late. Now he must find the exit back to the Land of the Living, or risk forfeiting his soul. But something is terribly wrong in this strange other realm—something he could potentially set right . . . if he chooses to try.
