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This book argues for a radical new approach to thinking about art
and creativity in Africa, challenging outdated normative discourses
about Africa's creative heritage. Africanism, which is driven by a
traumatic response to colonialism in Africa, has an almost
unshakable stranglehold on the content, stylistics, and meaning of
art in Africa. Post-African aesthetics insists on the need to move
beyond this counter-colonial self-consciousness and considerably
change, re-work and enlarge the ground, principles and mission of
artistic imagination and creativity in Africa. This book critiques
and dismantles the tropes of Africanism and Afrocentrism, providing
the criteria and methodology for a Post-African art theory or
Post-African aesthetics. Grounded initially in essays by Denis
Ekpo, the father of Post-Africanism, the book then explores a range
of applications and interpretations of Post-African theory to the
art forms and creative practices in Africa. With particular
reference to South Africa, this book will be of interest to
researchers across the disciplines of Art, Literature, Media
Studies, Cultural Anthropology, and African Studies.
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