Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I. Art’s Critique of Representation
7. 1. The Fragile Inheritors 37
8. 2. Busy in the Ruins of Wretched Phantasia 50
9. PART II. Differential Proliferations
10. 3. Marronage of the Wandering Eye: Keith Piper 87
11. 4. Mortal Coil: Eros and Diaspora in the Photographs of Rotimi Fani-Kayode 97
12. 5. Avid Iconographies: Isaac Julien 129
13. 6. Art That Is Ethnic in Inverted Commas: Yinka Shonibare 147
14. PART III. Global Modernities
15. 7. Home from Home: Portraits from Places in Between 155
16. 8. African Photography in Contemporary Visual Culture 170
17. 9. Ethnicity and Internationality: New British Art and Diaspora-Based Blackness 186
18. 10. Documenta 11 207
19. PART IV. Detours and Returns
20. 11. A Sociography of Diaspora 215
21. 12. Diaspora Aesthetics and Visual Culture 227
22. 13. Art History after Globalization: Formations of the Colonial Modern 248
23. 14. The Cross-Cultural and the Contemporary 262
24. PART V. Journeying
25. 15. Postcolonial Trauerspiel: Black Audio Film Collective 277
26. 16. Archive and Dépaysement in the Art of Renée Green 294
27. 17. Kerry James Marshall: The Painter of Afro-Modern Life 310
28. 18. Hew Locke’s Postcolonial Baroque 321
29. Bibliography 347
30. Index 357