Verger,Pierre (Author), Neto,Mário Cravo (Author), Metzner,Manfred (Editor), and Thoss,Michael (Editor)
Format:
Book, Whole
Language:
German
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Heidelberg: Wunderhorn
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
On the occasion of the exhibition "Black Gods in Exile [Schwarze Götter im Exil] photographs by Pierre Verger and Mario Cravo Neto Fatumbi." Ethnological Museum, Berlin - Dahlem , 2 September to 7 November 2004., 351 p., Traditions in Brazilian Candomblé, Haitian voodoo and Cuban Santeria, the collective memory of the African-American population, are portrayed in the photographs of French ethnologist and photographer Pierre Verger.
164 p., Explores four contemporary novels and a film that rely heavily on photographic and mass-media images to illuminate, articulate, and critique modern-day Black urban existence: Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco (1997), Chris Abani's Graceland (2004), John Edgar Wideman's Fanon , Paulo Lins' Cidade de Deus (1997), and Fernando Meirelles' 2002 film adaptation of Lins' novel City of God . Chapters examine the ways in which photographic and/or mass-media images are used as narrative tropes or devices for representing the material conditions of an emerging slum existence. The author argues that each text reveals a preoccupation with the rise of global urbanism and visual culture as new types of discursive spaces--new kinds of "texts"-- that shape not only the real life of black people, but also the literary landscape of Black writing across the globe.
