Looking at the Other/Seeing the Self: Embodied Performance and Encounter in Brett Bailey’s Exhibit B and Nineteenth-Century Ethnographic Displays

Atkin, Lara

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“…A substantial literature on living displays of indigenous people, commonly known as ethnographic shows or "human zoos," argues that these performances offered Western audiences a palpable experience of their supposed racial and civilizational superiority. By portraying indigenous people as "savages" and placing them at a lower stage of human development, these shows served to justify Western imperial expansion (Atkin 2015;Ellis 2013;Lindfors 1999a;Manderson 2018;Mathur 2001;Purkayastha 2019;Qureshi , 2012aQureshi , 2012bRydell 1993;Vaughan 1996;Vinson and Edgar 2007;Welch 2011;Wiss 1994). The juxtaposition of non-European "savagery" and "barbarism" with modern technological achievements at a series of world's fairs and exhibitions (Mathur 2001;Rydell 1993;Vaughan 1996), as well as the performers' juxtaposition with audiences whose civilizational superiority as "modern man" they were meant to confirm, highlights modernity's inseparability from coloniality, as theorized by Walter Mignolo (2011).…”

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Staged Otherness

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This book is the result of long years of cooperation between many people, as well as the culmination of a series of enterprises (conferences, exhibitions, special issues, and several individual articles in academic periodicals) centered around the international research project Staged Otherness: Human Oddities in Central Europe, 1850Europe, -1939 Each stage of the project involved the active cooperation of many individuals, whose goodwill and assistance ultimately made the enterprise successful.

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Policing Exhibit B in St Denis and Paris

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2022

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South Africa and Zimbabwe

Warren¹

2016

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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Introduction: South Africa 2015 was a tumultuous year for South Africa with mass protests about corruption, increased student activism, police violence, xenophobia, the #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall movements, disruptions in parliament, and more broadly a move away from rainbow nation rhetoric to an escalated awareness and anger over ongoing economic and race-related inequalities. This was also felt in the literary world as writers became increasingly vocal about socio-political concerns. Thando Mgqolozana took the Franschhoek Literary Festival to task for its predominantly white audiences, leading to calls to decolonize the literary establishment. The Time of the Writer Festival also made negative headlines when Z. P. Dala was assaulted after praising Salman Rushdie at a public reading; a reminder that global issues such as censorship affect local writers.Despite these challenges, writers continue to write and publish, with the bibliography showing the vibrancy of South African literature. There are new books by established authors as well as new voices emerging. The criticism shows a wide range of authors under discussion.The Ingrid Jonker Prize for a debut poetry collection went to Thabo Jijana for Failing Maths and My Other Crimes, with Matric Rage by Genna Gardini and The Attributes of Poetry by Elisa Galgut receiving judges' commendations. Vangi Gantsho, Eliza Kentridge, Nick Mulgrew, and Sihle Ntuli also produced impressive first volumes. Matthews Phosa has published in Afrikaans but Chants of Freedom is his first English collection. Athol Williams has published several books under the pseudonym A. E. Ballakisten but now has a collection Bumper Cars in his own name. He was the winner of the fifth Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award for his poem "Streetclass Diseases".Kobus Moolman has been announced as the winner of the American-based Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry. Noteworthy new collections from established poets came from Isobel de Gruchy,

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Looking at the Other/Seeing the Self: Embodied Performance and Encounter in Brett Bailey’s Exhibit B and Nineteenth-Century Ethnographic Displays

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