On Being Committed to a Small Place
Critical Positions from Central America,
the Caribbean, and their Diasporas: Annalee Davis
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Published by: TEOR-éTica, 2019
Edited by: Miguel A. López
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On Being Committed to a Small Place is the fifth book in the Local Scriptures series - Critical positions from Central America, the Caribbean and its diasporas - an editorial project of TEOR / ÉTica focused on thinking about how the ways of seeing and doing art in the region have been transformed during the last four decades. This new book continues with our objective of making accessible a selection of several of the most relevant speeches and critical positions that have shaped the critical paradigms in Central America and the Caribbean.
The book compiles six essays by artist Annalee Davis (Barbados, 1963), who is one of the engines in the transformation of the Caribbean's cultural landscape in the past two and a half decades. Davis reflects on the critical possibilities of art in a post-colonial and post-independence Caribbean context, which leads her to insistently explore the significance of concepts such as economy, landscape, race, gender, tourism, national identity and plantation economies. Her writing and practice not only examine the past, but also seek to foster platforms for conversation, sociability and critical exchange that see art as a tool to reimagine history, civil society and the public sphere.
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