The Making of a Caribbean Avant-Garde: Postmodernism as Post-Nationalism

by Therese Kaspersen Hadchity

Focusing on the Anglophone Caribbean, The Making of a Caribbean Avant-Garde describes the rise and gradual consolidation of the visual arts avant-garde, which came to local and international attention in the 1990s. The book is centered on the critical and aesthetic strategies employed by this avant-garde to repudiate the previous generation's commitment to modernism and anti-colonialism. In three sections, it highlights the many converging...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557539340
• ISBN13: 9781557539342
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"