Author: Albert Memmi
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: decolonized, decolonization
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2006-10-24
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0816647356
ISBN-13: 9780816647354

In this time of global instability and widespread violence, Albert Memmi—author of the highly influential and groundbreaking work The Colonizer and the Colonized—turns his attention to the present-day situation of formerly colonized peoples. In Decolonization and the Decolonized, Memmi expands his intellectual engagement with the subject and examines the manifold causes of the failure of decolonization efforts throughout the world. As outspoken and controversial as ever, Memmi initiates a much-needed discussion of the ex-colonized and refuses to idealize those who are too often painted

Author: Sarita Echavez See
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: art, performance, american, filipino, eye, decolonized
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2009-11-13
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0816653194
ISBN-13: 9780816653195

From the late 1980s to the present, artists of Filipino descent in the United States have produced a challenging and creative movement. In The Decolonized Eye, Sarita Echavez See shows how these artists have engaged with the complex aftermath of U.S. colonialism in the Philippines.Focusing on artists working in New York and California, See examines the overlapping artistic and aesthetic practices and concerns of filmmaker Angel Shaw, painter Manuel Ocampo, installation artist Paul Pfeiffer, comedian Rex Navarrete, performance artist Nicky Paraiso, and sculptor Reanne Estrada to explain the rea