Critical Arts articles from January 1 2003

Critical Arts archives from January 1 2003

Editorial: whose diaspora is this anyway? Continental Africans trying on and troubling diasporic identity.(Editorial)
January 1, 2003... Introduction: Diaspora and the Complexity of African Identity No matter where you come from As long as you're a black man You're an African. (Peter Tosh, "African") Since I was born in the Antilles, my...

African intellectuals in the belly of the beast: migration, identity and the politics of African intellectuals in the North (1).
January 1, 2003... Abstract This paper examines the 'double consciousness' of black African intellectual migrants in the North. It argues that the migrant is forced to come to terms with Africanite for the first time in the North. This condition of...

Constructing consciousness: Diasporic remembrances and imagining Africa in late modernity.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... Abstract Several simultaneous aesthetic movements have emerged in the African Diaspora that critically explore and reference Africa to address the questions of 'history, migrations and trans-national practices'. This paper critically...

Marking the Unmarked: Hip-Hop, the Gaze & the African Body in North America.
January 1, 2003... Abstract Based on personal narrative and 'critical ethnographic research,' this paper is about the process of 'becoming black,' the interrelations between race, culture, and identity, and their impact on what, who and how we as social...

Postcolonial archives V.Y. Mudimbe's The Rift.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... Abstract This essay presents an analysis of V. Y. Mudimbe's novel, The Rift (1979/1993). I read this novel as an engagement with both the colonial archives of discourse about Africa, and also as an engagement with psychoanalytic attempts...

'RaGap': music and identity among young Ethiopians in Israel.
January 1, 2003... Abstract In this article, I present the emergence of a recent phenomenon among young Ethiopians in Israel, in which they appropriate and identify with specific black musical genres such as Reggae and Rap, and develop a new sub-culture of...

'A hapless attempt at swimming': representations of Eric Moussambani.
January 1, 2003... ABSTRACT One of the most powerful images to emerge from the pool at the Sydney 2000 Olympics was that of Eric Moussambani from Equatorial Guinea who swam his heat of the 100-meter freestyle alone after the other two swimmers in his heat...

A passage to Africa George Alagiah London: Little, Brown and Company, 2001.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... In my view, A Passage to Africa is one of the most perceptive books ever written about contemporary Africa. It is captivating, informative, revealing, very critical and yet profoundly passionate about Africa. On the surface, it is devastatingly...

Cultural Economy: cultural analysis and commercial life.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... This collection announces the beginning of the end of strife between cultural studies and political economy. The authors bring the tools of cultural studies to bear on a wide range of economic issues, including the changing role of culture in...

The ethnographer's Eye: ways of Seeing in modern anthropology.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Anna Grimshaw's exploration of the role of vision within modern anthropology engages with current debates about ocularcentrism, investigating the relationship between vision and knowledge in ethnographic inquiry. Using John Berger's notion of...

Same and other: negotiating African identity in cultural production.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... The idea of African Otherness has occupied a central role in discourses on cultural production in Africa, whether film, literature, music or the arts. These claims, articulated both by 'Western' and 'African' critics and consumers, means that...

Encounter images: in the meetings between Africa and Europe.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Saying that the image of Africa in the West is negative is stating the obvious but explaining nothing. This book is about understanding how the images have evolved in the encounters between Africa and Europe over time. It shows a greater...