Rita Keresztesi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4897118 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rita Keresztesi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rita |
| FAMILY NAME | Keresztesi |
| SIGNATURE | KERESZTESI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1018-5611 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reinventing the archive in Africa
The documentary film Dahomey by Mati Diop participates in the public debate on the restitution of heritage works to colonized countries. The film follows the return of the Royal Treasures of Abomey in Benin from France in 2021. The visual memorialization of the restoration of stolen artifacts is a decolonial statement on the reparation of tangible and intangible losses. As Aminata Traoré comments, “Thus our works of art have the right to exist wh…
Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s Le président
Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s ‘mockumentary’ film Le président (2013) exposes the dangers of a single story and absolute political rule by presidents-for-life. He not only mimics but also mocks the ‘visible evidence’ thesis of the documentary film genre and blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction. Bekolo’s film opts for multiple voices to entice political dissent and believes in the power of art to imagine liveable African futures
The Ethnic Avant-Garde
In Steven S. Lee’s The Ethnic Avant-Garde: Minority Cultures and World Revolution, the critical category of the ethnic avant-garde promises to help organize our understanding of artistic innovation and revolutionary politics across time and space and through racial and ethnic identities. Moreover, the category offers hope for reimagining political radicalism in our conflict-ridden present. The book recenters modernism from Western Europe to Easte…
The Western in the Global South
Literary Sisters
Reviewed by: Literary Sisters: Dorothy West and Her Circle, A Biography of the Harlem Renaissance by Verner D. Mitchell, Cynthia Davis Rita Keresztesi (bio) Verner D. Mitchell and Cynthia Davis. Literary Sisters: Dorothy West and Her Circle, A Biography of the Harlem Renaissance. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2012. 216pp. ISBN 978-0813551463, $24.95. There has been much renewed interest in the Harlem Renaissance after its first critical assessme…
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Literary Sisters
Reviewed by: Literary Sisters: Dorothy West and Her Circle, A Biography of the Harlem Renaissance by Verner D. Mitchell, Cynthia Davis Rita Keresztesi (bio) Verner D. Mitchell and Cynthia Davis. Literary Sisters: Dorothy West and Her Circle, A Biography of the Harlem Renaissance. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2012. 216pp. ISBN 978-0813551463, $24.95. There has been much renewed interest in the Harlem Renaissance after its first critical assessme…
The Western in the Global South
The Ethnic Avant-Garde
In Steven S. Lee’s The Ethnic Avant-Garde: Minority Cultures and World Revolution, the critical category of the ethnic avant-garde promises to help organize our understanding of artistic innovation and revolutionary politics across time and space and through racial and ethnic identities. Moreover, the category offers hope for reimagining political radicalism in our conflict-ridden present. The book recenters modernism from Western Europe to Easte…
Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s Le président
Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s ‘mockumentary’ film Le président (2013) exposes the dangers of a single story and absolute political rule by presidents-for-life. He not only mimics but also mocks the ‘visible evidence’ thesis of the documentary film genre and blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction. Bekolo’s film opts for multiple voices to entice political dissent and believes in the power of art to imagine liveable African futures
Reinventing the archive in Africa
The documentary film Dahomey by Mati Diop participates in the public debate on the restitution of heritage works to colonized countries. The film follows the return of the Royal Treasures of Abomey in Benin from France in 2021. The visual memorialization of the restoration of stolen artifacts is a decolonial statement on the reparation of tangible and intangible losses. As Aminata Traoré comments, “Thus our works of art have the right to exist wh…
History (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · African Studies and Ethnography (1 work) · American Literature and Culture (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Avant garde (1 work)