Street Art and Activism in the Greater Caribbean
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Street Art and Activism in the Greater Caribbean

Impossible States, Virtual Publics

  1. 226 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Street Art and Activism in the Greater Caribbean

Impossible States, Virtual Publics

About this book

Foregrounding street art in the capital cities of Cuba, Haiti, and Puerto Rico, this book argues that Antillean street artists diagnose the "impossible state" of the arrested present (colonized, occupied, or under dictatorship) while simultaneously imagining liberated futures and fully sovereign states.

Jana Evans Braziel launches a comparative study of art, politics, history, urban street cultures, engaged citizenships, and social transformations in three Antillean capital cities—Havana, Cuba; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; and San Juan, Puerto Rico—of the Greater Caribbean. The book includes a photo documentary archive of street art, murals, and installations by key muralists in these cities: Yulier Rodriguez PĂ©rez, "Jerry" Rosembert MoĂŻse, and Colectivo MorivivĂ­ (Chachi GonzĂĄlez ColĂłn, Raysa RodrĂ­guez GarcĂ­a, and SalomĂ© CortĂ©s). Braziel offers art historical and geopolitical analyses of the urban street art in their cities of production, underscoring street art as political, economic, and environmental engagements (and not as exclusively aesthetic ones) with urban space and street life.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Caribbean studies, Latin American studies, and urban studies.

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Information

Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781032247724
eBook ISBN
9781000636116
Edition
1
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Art General

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction: Living Streets: Calles Vivas: Lari Vivan
  10. Intermezzo: Havana
  11. 1 Murales as Testimonios: In the Streets of Havana
  12. Intermezzo: Port-au-Prince
  13. 2 Murales as Media: In the Streets of Port-au-Prince
  14. Intermezzo: San Juan
  15. 3 Murales as Mythos: In the Streets of San Juan
  16. 4 Digital Walls/Virtual Publics: Coronavirus Cities on Instagram
  17. Conclusion: Beyond “Impossible States”
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index