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Trans/Oceanic experiences in arts 
Convenors:
Ute Fendler (University of Bayreuth)
Jorge Cardoso Filho (Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia)
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Discussant:
Livio Sansone (Federal University of Bahia)
Format:
Workshop
Stream:
Imagining ‘Africanness’
Location:
S44 (RWII)
Sessions:
Tuesday 1 October, -, Wednesday 2 October, -, -
Time zone: Europe/Berlin

Short Abstract:

The study of trans/oceanic experiences in arts and literatures, especially in the areas of the Black Atlantic and the Indian Ocean focuses on narrative productions and artistic practices in the light of colonial legacies. --Panel has workshop (location Jean Paul Art Space) +2 sessions --

Long Abstract:

In the context of transoceanic studies, the idea of the "journey", of crossing space(s) and time(s) is a condition of production expressed in diverse narratives and expressive formats similar to Glissant. The condition of strangeness for afro-descendant communities, becomes expressive material for creative processes and responses. The afro-descendant experiences, strongly shaped by post-colonial struggles, of a multiple insertion that does not accept spatial (here and there) or temporal (before and after) binarisms and is crossed by power relations that are defined by racial, gender, class, sexualities, etc. in an intersectional way. This movement of formulating meanings from what some authors identify as “margin” (Hall 2003; Kilomba 2019; Hooks 2019), is grounded in a creative possibility that, according to Grada Kilomba (2019), allows the imagination not only of new answers, but, significantly, of new questions that are able to disrupt hegemonic authorities and discourses and propose places outside the predefined order. These approaches can be combined with transoceanic perspectives so that archipelagic memories and displacements can be related across regions.Thus, our aim is to observe the poetic flows that take this aesthetic of the waters as an element of their expressive matrices which can range from motifs, metaphors, and figures to aesthetic means that try to capture the fluid character in the rhythm of a verbal/performing/audio-visual text. These poetic narratives are not considered here as invariably romanticized, nor as exclusively linked to the trauma of slavery, but following movements and ambivalences, in which shades of these extremes may coexist.

Accepted contributions:

Session 1 Tuesday 1 October, 2024, -
Session 2 Wednesday 2 October, 2024, -
Session 3 Wednesday 2 October, 2024, -
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