Tlostanova What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet?

Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7163-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 160 Seiten

Reihe: On Decoloniality

Madina Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates the post-Soviet human condition through analyses of art and through interviews with artists and writers, showing the important role that radical art plays in building new modes of thought and a decolonial future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tlostanova, Madina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. A Futureless Ontology? 1
1. The Decolonial Sublime 25
2. Decolonial Aesthesis and Post-Soviet Art 33
3. A Woman Who Has Many Selves and Takes Over Many Spaces: A Conversation with Liina Siib 65
4. Beyond Dependencies: A Talk with Vyacheslav Akhunov, the Lonely Ranger of Uzbeck Contemporary Art 84
5. Reflecting on Time, Space, and Memory with Afanassy Mamedov 106
Conclusion. People Are Silent. 119
Notes 129
References 135
Index 141

Über Autor(innen)

Madina Tlostanova is Professor of Postcolonial Feminisms at Linköping University, Sweden, and the author of several books, most recently, Postcolonialism and Postsocialism in Fiction and Art: Resistance and Re-existence.