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Este trabajo trata sobre artes visuales modernas y contemporáneas en América latina. Como ejes trasversales del texto se plantea: la decolonialidad y la antropofagia crítica. Parte desde la problematización de las estéticas decoloniales y la revisión histórica del arte latinoamericano del siglo XX, primero modernista luego posmoderno, desde una aproximación decolonial. Su intención es analizar si la opción decolonial es viable para artes visuales. Pretende analizar la propuesta de la decolonialidad, así como sus límites y sus principales riesgos. Además de establecer puentes con la ética posmoderna y la ética latinoamericana. En el capítulo dos trata como eje principal la antropofagia, tanto como movimiento artístico moderno, como propuesta de producción y aproximación crítica, cultural y artística. Mira a la antropofagia como proceso y como metodología posmoderna de resistencia. Bajo estos parámetros analiza la obra de tres artistas modernistas latinoamericanos: Joaquín Torres García, Tarsila do Amaral y Wilfredo Lam. Luego, y a partir de esta aproximación, en el capítulo tres se plantea el análisis crítico a una práctica artística: la muestra ARTNIVORA (2011) del colectivo femenino de arte La emancipada en Quito. Analiza en esta muestra, como el colectivo emplea la antropofagia crítica para buscar un argumento de emancipación de género. En esta muestra de arte actual, las estrategias de la apropiación y la cita contemporáneas son leídas como una práctica antropofágica. La intención es presentar un diferente punto de vista para la producción y la apreciación de las artes visuales y plásticas contemporáneas latinoamericanas, tanto obras de arte, como el trabajo creativo y los procesos de sus autores y autoras. El texto plantea la importancia del sentido de pertenencia con la localidad en la expresión de arte visual, si bien emplea un lenguaje cuyos códigos pueden ser leídos internacionalmente, su anclaje es su localidad y problemáticas insertas en un contexto local.

It's about the role that music, film, visual art, and Indigenous cultural practices play in and beyond Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools. The essays question the ways in which components of the reconciliation, such as apology and witnessing, have social and political effects for residential-schools survivors, intergenerational survivors, and settler publics."-- Provided by publisher

This book examines the local, regional and transnational contexts of video games through a focused analysis on gaming communities, the ways game design regulates gender and class relations, and the impacts of colonization on game design. The critical interest in games as a cultural artifact is covered by a wide range of interdisciplinary work. To highlight the social impacts of games the first section of the book covers the systems built around high score game competitions, the development of independent game design communities, and the formation of fan communities and cosplay. The second section of the book offers a deeper analysis of game structures, gender and masculinity, and the economic constraints of empire that are built into game design. The final section offers a macro perspective on transnational and colonial discourses built into the cultural structures of East Asian game play

This essay considers the intersectionality between the field of art history focused on the subject category of Native American or Indigenous art and Indigenous Studies. Methodological gaps in the field of art history are discussed through the canonical genre of landscape art with a comparative reference to key exhibitions; Land Spirit Power: First Nations at the National Gallery of Canada, (1992), The West As America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820-1920, (1991), Submuloc Show/Columbus Wohs (1992), Our Land/Ourselves: Contemporary Native American Landscape (1991) and Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Artic (2015). The aestheticization of the colonization of the Americas as represented in the genre of landscape art is interrogated as a form of historical violence that needs to be decolonized within the field of art history.

In this essay, I aim to engage the growing body of scholarship that employs Indigenous feminist theories to understand and mobilize against the sexual and gendered violence committed against Native peoples. To accomplish this, I construct a Native feminist analysis of the 2010 Tribal Law and Order Act. I posit that despite the overwhelmingly positive characterizations of the legislation as “historic” in its potential to address violence against Native women and reduce crime in Indian country, a Native feminist reading of the Tribal Law and Order Act illuminates the degree to which the Act emerges from, engages with, and advances settler colonial and heteropatriarchal logics that cause violence against Native women in the first place. I suggest that although the Act does contain measures that have the potential to alleviate the experience of violence in Native women’s lives, it also diminishes tribal sovereignty, perpetuates the ongoing encroachment of tribal jurisdiction, regulates the boundaries of Native identity, and limits our ability to envision and enact practices of decolonization.

El espesor de este libro es propio de este tiempo. Cuerpos que se desplazan en masivas inmigraciones huyendo de todo tipo de violencias alcanzan a más de sesenta millones de personas, la mayor cifra de refugiados desde la segunda guerra mundial. El mundo experimenta una crisis humanitaria sobrecogedora ante la cual las potencias apelan a los mismos discursos que ya Aimé Césaire o Fanon condenaran. Dramatismo del exilio de este nomadismo a escala planetaria, al cual Stuart Hall calificaría como “amensia imperial”. Genealogías críticas de la colonialidad en América Latina, África, Oriente es un libro que deja al descubierto la piel del mundo contemporáneo. Un hecho cultural disruptivo que, anudado a una genealogía latinoamericana abierta a sí misma y hacia Otros Sures se interroga sobre los intrincados modos de narrar y silenciar los pasados coloniales.

En esta conversación se indaga por la cuestión decolonial de la estética, sus puntos de origen históricos y geográficos, además de sus posibilidades en el contexto de reconfiguración actual del orden mundial. Desde esta perspectiva, se pretende aclarar en qué consiste la opción decolonial, respecto de otras opciones, sin olvidar cuestiones importantes del arte, la historia, el museo, la curaduría y sus implicaciones éticas, políticas y epistémicas. Cette conversation touche à la question de l’esthétique décoloniale, de ses points d’origine historiques et géographiques et de ses possibilités dans le contexte de la reconfiguration actuelle de l’ordre mondial. Dans cette perspective, l’objectif est de clarifier l’option décoloniale par rapport à d’autres options — sans oublier les questions importantes de l’art, de l’histoire, des musées, de la mission du curateur — et ses implications éthiques, politiques et épistémiques.

"Qui était Zacharie Vincent, aussi connu, à l'époque, sous le nom de Tehariolin? Peu de gens le savent. Il s'agit pourtant d'une figure incontournable, considérée comme le premier peintre autochtone moderne. Le présent ouvrage, signé par l'historienne de l'art Louise Vigneault, lève donc le voile sur ce peintre et chef de guerre wendat, longtemps tombé dans l'oubli, qui a considérablement marqué le 19e siècle. Zacharie Vincent (1815-1886) a suscité la fascination, avec ses allures d'artiste bohème, sa dégaine de clochard mêlée à ses ornements d'apparat, la singularité de ses autoportraits. La légende entourant celui que l'on appelait le " dernier des Hurons " a attiré les regards sur la petite communauté de la Jeune-Lorette (aujourd'hui Wendake), pour ensuite révéler la fierté et la résilience du peuple wendat. Des peintres canadiens, tels Antoine Plamondon et Eugène Hamel, ont réalisé des portraits de Vincent, puis des photographes comme Louis-Prudent Vallée ont immortalisé son image. Zacharie Vincent : une autohistoire artistique nous plonge au cour de la vie et de l'ouvre d'un artiste énigmatique qui a laissé en héritage des témoignages essentiels sur sa nation, en équilibre entre la tradition et la modernité."-- Quatrième de couverture

From gold farmers and ‘100 million brain-damaged online gamers’ to the world’s biggest game company and more players than US citizens, China seems like the cabinet of curiosities for the whole world of digital gaming. This article focuses on news coverage around Chinese gaming and presents three phases of such journalism. China’s emerging games market was most prominently featured between 1999 and 2005, while 2006-2011 focused on extreme play behavior in China. Most recently, a discourse of vast business opportunities and stabilizing markets has been presented by Western news media. In total more than 853 news articles are explored in parallel to the theoretical concept of Sinological-orientalism. This article suggests significant historical changes in the ways in which knowledge of Chinese gaming has been produced in English language news media.

This article explores the ways game adaptations engage with existing popular culture constructions of race within the framework of commercial franchises. Its focus is on games which are part of the so-called “Frodo Franchise” based on Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films. It considers the role played by licensing agreements, the conventions, and ludic elements of different game genres, the need for new characters and narratives to keep audiences engaged with an existing world, and the opportunity games offer for interactive exploration of a digital world, to illuminate both the challenges to and the opportunities for disrupting conventional representations of race and difference.

In this article, I argue that digital games hold the potential to influence processes of cultural memory related to past and contemporary forms of marginalization. By bringing cultural memory studies into dialogue with game studies, I account for the ways through which digital games and practices of play might influence historical discourses and memory politics pertaining to marginalized identities. In order to demonstrate this, I conduct an analysis of Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry, a digital game which includes representation of the eighteenth-century transatlantic slave trade and its racist systems. This analysis is then contrasted with statements by two critics, Evan Narcisse and Justin Clark, about how Freedom Cry highlights specific marginalized identities and represents the past through the game form. These statements, coupled with my game analysis, make the case for a concept that I term ‘counter-hegemonic commemorative play’. This makes visible a form of potentially cathartic power fantasy within a historical struggle, alongside emphasizing a form of designed recognition of marginalized identities within contemporary historical discourses and memory politics.

Seeking to address the general question, ‘Where is Digital Asia?’, this paper explores the various ways in which the digital and virtual realm interacts with the problematic and contested category of Asia. Beginning with a discussion of the relationship between Asia and Digital Asia, as both cartographic and ideological sites, it moves on to connect Digital Asia with the discourse of techno-Orientalism. Using the example of the videogame as an instance of a digital location that can be visited and explored, this article suggests that the gamic quality of interactivity adds a new, experiential dimension to the ideological structure of (techno-)Orientalism, hence positing the utility of a new form of ‘Gamic Orientalism’. Focussing on the ‘digital dōjō’ as the site of Gamic Orientalism and Digital Asia par excellence, this paper concludes with a discussion of the ways in which gamers represent their engagement with this site in a manner that echoes the way martial artists talk about the significance of their art as self-cultivation. Illustrated with texts from the bushidō canon and interviews with gamers, this playful and experimental piece posits the possibility of ‘virtual bushidō’ as the ultimate expression of Gamic Orientalism, suggesting that Digital Asia is finally located in an ideologically conditioned mode of engagement with the digital medium rather than in any cartographically defined space.

Native artists of Quebec working in performance art set up actions that are similar to contemporary forms of rituals. These works have sometimes a poetic or “shamanic” character, are sometimes disturbing, especially through the critique of the clichés about First Nations, or mix those two components. They committed the body of the artist and the audience, while making the Native American cultural expression a both artistic and identity performance

Comme naguère Jean-Jacques Rousseau dénonçait le scandale d'une société fondée sur l'inégalité, avec la même clarté, et un bonheur d'écriture que seule peut inspirer la passion du juste, Aimé Césaire prend ses distance par rapport au monde occidental et le juge. Ce discours est un acte d'accusation et de libération. Sont assignés quelques ténors de la civilisation blanche et de son idéologie mystifiante, l'Humanisme formel et froid. En pleine lumière sont exposées d'horribles réalités : la barbarie du colonisateur et le malheur du colonisé, le fait même de la colonisation qui n'est qu'une machine exploiteuse d'hommes et déshumanisante, une machine à détruire des civilisations qui étaient belles, dignes et fraternelles. C'est la première fois qu'avec cette force est proclamée, face à l'Occident, la valeur des cultures nègres. Mais la violence de la pureté du cri sont à la mesure d'une grande exigence, ce texte chaud, à chaque instant, témoigne du souci des hommes, d'une authentique universalité humaine. Il s'inscrit dans la lignée de ces textes majeurs qui ne cessent de réveiller en chacun de nous la générosité de la lucidité révolutionnaires. Le Discours sur le colonialisme est suivi du Discours sur la Négritude, qu'Aimé Césaire a prononcé à l'Université Internationale de Floride (Miami), en 1987.

Comment se fait-il que le Canada puisse être représenté par des totems indiens à Walt Disney World ou par un inukshuk aux Jeux olympiques de Vancouver ? Il y a indéniablement « quelque chose » d’indien à propos du Canada. Pour survivre moralement et politiquement à son héritage colonial, l’État a besoin de se faire lui-même partiellement indien. Il lui faut ce je-ne-sais-quoi, cette « chose indienne », nommée sans l’être complètement, signalée sans jamais être définie. Cette indianité, bien qu’elle soit interpellée par la présence d’Autochtones, n’a plus besoin d’eux pour se manifester en tant que réalité. Historiquement, le cinéma constitue l’un des lieux privilégiés où se manifeste cette « chose indienne » prise dans les rets de l’imagination libérale et coloniale qui alimente les velléités de souveraineté du Québec et du Canada. Dans la mesure où une telle capture constitue l’un des principaux exercices politiques de l’État, le présent ouvrage avance une conception de la décolonisation qui ne relève plus de la révélation d’une réalité de l’Indien, cachée derrière sa représentation et ses distorsions filmiques, prête à resurgir au profit d’une « reconnaissance » par et dans l’État souverain. Il s’agit plutôt de comprendre le rapport colonial comme une lutte multipartite entre Canadiens, Québécois et Autochtones, avec pour enjeu de s’emparer du pouvoir exclusif de désigner et de représenter ce (et ceux) que cette « chose indienne » pourra (ou non) signifier et autoriser dans le voisinage colonial du souverain.

"Between the late 1970s and the early 2000s, at least sixty-five women, many of them members of Indigenous communities, were found murdered or reported missing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. In a work driven by the urgency of this ongoing crisis, which extends across the country, Amber Dean offers a timely, critical analysis of the public representations, memorials, and activist strategies that brought the story of Vancouver's disappeared women to the attention of a wider public. Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women traces "what lives on" from the violent loss of so many women from the same neighborhood. Dean interrogates representations that aim to humanize the murdered or missing women, asking how these might inadvertently feed into the presumed dehumanization of sex work, Indigeneity, and living in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. Taking inspiration from Indigenous women's research, activism, and art, she challenges readers to reckon with our collective implication in the ongoing violence of settler colonialism and to accept responsibility for addressing its countless injustices

Incisive analyses of mass media - including such forms as talk shows, MTV, the Internet, soap operas, television sitcoms, dramatic series, pornography, and advertising-enable this provocative third edition of Gender, Race and Class in Media to engage students in critical mass media scholarship. Issues of power related to gender, race, and class are integrated into a wide range of articles examining the economic and cultural implications of mass media as institutions, including the political economy of media production, textual analysis, and media consumption. Throughout, Gender, Race and Class in Media examines the mass media as economic and cultural institutions that shape our social identities, especially in regard to gender, race, and class.

This landmark work of history and theory challenges every accepted notion about the nature of black women’s lives. Ain’t I A Woman examines the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the historic devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism within the recent women’s movement, and black women’s involvement with feminism. hooks refutes the antifeminist claim that black women are not victims of sexist oppression nor in need of an autonomous women’s movement. She pushes feminist dialogue to new limits by claiming that all progressive struggles are significant only when they take place within a broadly defined feminist movement which takes as its starting point that race, class, and sex are immutable facts of human existence. bell hooks’ insight as a black woman and a feminist extends the scope of feminist theory and practice for us all, and marks the emergence of a revitalized feminism in the 1980s.