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Broken Tropics: Contingency in Contemporary Caribbean Art Volume 10

Broken Tropics: Contingency in Contemporary Caribbean Art Volume 10

de Ferrari, Guillermina

Hardcover

Series: Studies on Latin American Art and Latinx Art

Art Criticism & TheoryArt HistoryCaribbean, Latin American & South American Art

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ISBN10: 0520404459
ISBN13: 9780520404458
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Dec 15 2026
Pages: 280
Weight: 2.10
Height: 1.00 Width: 7.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Broken Tropics examines contemporary art installations, performances, photography, and street art from three primary sites of compounding vulnerability: Cuba, Haiti, and Puerto Rico. Guillermina De Ferrari poses two central questions: How does contingency affect our humanness, and what does art making under duress say about being human? With the understanding that being human is a praxis and that art is a practical philosophy, De Ferrari introduces the notion of an art of contingency. This creative practice engages with the accidental and the unexpected to highlight two contradictory facts: that uncertainty is a predictable feature of Caribbean life and that, nonetheless, misfortune does not have to be fate. Placing long-standing concerns about social, political, and economic injustice on a continuum with the concerns of disaster studies and ecocriticism, Broken Tropics shows how people reshape and reinvent the social world in response to external pressures, and how the arts envision new forms of living in a broken world.

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