Reading the Contemporary. African Art from Theory to the Marketplace.

[Anthology of 22 essays that intend "to sketch the development of a new critical language and method for the evaluation of contemporary African Art".]
Texts :
PART I. THEORY AND CULTURAL TRANSACTIONS :
1. Olu Oguibe: Art, Identity, Boundaries: Postmodernism and Contemporary African Art ;
2. V.Y. Mudimbe: "Reprendre": Enunciations and Strategies in Contemporary African Arts ;
3. Kwame Anthony Appiah: The Postcolonial and the Postmodern ;
4. Everlyn Nicodemus: Bourdieu out of Europe? ;
5. Sidney Kasfir: African Art and Authenticity: A Text with a Shadow ;
6. John Picton: In Vogue, or the Flavour of the Month: The New Way to Wear Black ;
PART II. HISTORY :
7. Ima Ebong: Negritude: Between Mask and Flag - Senegalese Cultural Ideology and the Ecole de Dakar ;
8. Chika Okeke: The Quest for a Nigerian Art: Or a Story of Art from Zaria to Nsukka ;
9. N. Frank Ukadike: New Developments in Black African Cinema ;
10. Salah Hassan: The Modernist Experience in African Art: Visual Expression of the Self and Cross-Cultural Aesthetics ;
11. Manthia Diawara: Talk of the Town: Seydou Keita ;
PART III. LOCATION AND PRACTICE :
12. Okwui Enwezor: Between Worlds: Postmodernism and African Artists in the Western Metropolis ;
13. Rotimi Fani-Kayode: Traces of Ecstasy ;
14. Kobena Mercer: Eros & Diaspora ;
15. Octavio Zaya: Meaning in Transit: Framing the Works of Boutros, Dridi, Ennadre, Gasteli and Naji ;
16. Thomas McEvilley: Fusion: Hot or Cold? ;
PART IV. NEGOTIATED IDENTITIES :
17. Olu Oguibe: In the "Heart of Darkness" ;
18. David Kolonae: The Identity Question: Focus on Black South African Expression ;
19. Margo Timm: Inversion of the Printed Image: Namibian Perspectives of John Ndevasia Muafangejo ;
20. Colin Richards: About Face: Aspects of Art History and Identity in South African Visual Culture ;
21. Okwui Enwezor: Reframing the Black Subject: Ideology and Fantasy in Contemporary South African Representation ;
22. Laura Mulvey: The Carapace That Failed: Ousmane Sembene's "Xala" (1974) ;
Reference / Index.