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Sites of Remembering de Abebe Zegeye

Sites of Remembering

Autor Abebe Zegeye
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 noi 2026
This book explores key themes such as insurgent memory, diaspora connections, and cultural preservation, offering critical insights into the works of influential figures like Mulatu Astatke, Zerihun Yetmgeta, and Chester Higgins. It examines the making of Ethio-jazz, the magical universe of African visual art, and the role of photography in documenting African experiences, and also:
  • Explores the evolution of contemporary African art through themes of memory, identity, and cultural capital.
  • Highlights influential figures and movements, including Mulatu Astatke’s Ethio-jazz and Zerihun Yetmgeta’s magical universe.
  • Examines diaspora connections and the role of photography in documenting African experiences.
  • Provides critical insights into archiving and cultural preservation, focusing on Sam Nhlengethwa’s art collection.
  • Offers interdisciplinary perspectives, blending art, music, and philosophy to re-center African narratives.
This title has been co-published with UNISA Press. T&F does not sell or distribute the print versions in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781041267768
ISBN-10: 1041267762
Pagini: 266
Ilustrații: 190
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Academic, General, and Postgraduate

Cuprins

Foreword

Section ፩: Thinking
1. Introduction
2. What is contemporary African art? 
3. Insurgent memory and African art

Section ፪: Viewing
4. Mulatu Astatke: The making of Ethio-jazz
5. The magical universe of Zerihun Yetmgeta
6. The seemingly seamless subversion of Sime 
7. Songs of the Angels

Section ፫: Knowing
8. Rethinking archiving: Modes of cultural capital in Sam
Nhlengethwa’s collection of art 
9. Beyond the construction of crises: The voice of an ordinary
Zimbabwean

Section ፬: Remembering
10. Diaspora connections and discontinuities: The photography
of Chester Higgins
11. In place of a conclusion: Re-centering SPace Currencies in
Contemporary African Art

Notă biografică

Abebe Zegeye is distinguished scholar whose work critically interrogates the meaning, value, and function of contemporary African art. His essays, compiled in Sites of Remembering, reflect a rigorous scholarly engagement rooted in an African perspective and underpinned by an Afrocentric orientation. Through his writing, Zegeye explores the vitality of African memory as a set of discursive practices essential to reclaiming and rescuing content embedded in historical archives, lived realities, cultural rituals, creative expression, and scholarly production.

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This book explores key themes such as insurgent memory, diaspora connections, and cultural preservation, offering critical insights into the works of influential figures like Mulatu Astatke, Zerihun Yetmgeta, and Chester Higgins.