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On Tropical Grounds: Avant-Garde and Surrealism in the Insular Atlantic

On Tropical Grounds: Avant-Garde and Surrealism in the Insular Atlantic

Hernandez Adrian, Francisco-J
Rosa, Richard

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Series: Critical South

Fiction AnthologiesCaribbean, Latin American & South American Art

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ISBN10: 1509561676
ISBN13: 9781509561674
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: Dec 31 2024
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.19
Height: 1.08 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.06
Language: English
On Tropical Grounds develops a new approach to the avant-garde and Surrealism in Caribbean and Atlantic studies. The book examines how islands and their tropical associations figure in the cultural and political imaginaries of the Caribbean and the Atlantic, and identifies genealogies of local responses to continental fantasies of exotic insularity. Examining written and visual works that reflect on the Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean and the Canary Islands, as well as critical debates around discourses of insularity in island and metropolitan spaces, this book considers notions of ethnic purity, originality, imitation, appropriation, cosmopolitanism, and self-exoticism to challenge the idea that avant-garde practices were pre-eminently urban and metropolitan cultural forms.

The book argues that attention to the relational dimension implicit in exchanges around ideas of anticolonial struggle, radical social transformation, and anti-fascist resistance should inform analyses of cultural production in Caribbean and Atlantic insular spaces. On Tropical Grounds develops a persuasive critical model for the investigation of politically and aesthetically situated archipelagic relations that transgresses disciplinary boundaries and reconfigures our conception of the avant-garde as a global movement that was overdetermined by racial, gender, and colonial conflicts.

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