Speaking in Tongues
Metapictures and the Discourse of Violence in Caribbean Art
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4196016 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erica Moiah James (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 119-143 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Small Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1534-6714 • E-ISSN: 0799-0537 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/07990537-1548137 |
| OpenAlex | W2140903594 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
Violence, trauma, and memory are fundamental factors of Caribbean modernity but have thus far been underexamined within art history and criticism. This essay explores the invisible yet palpable presence of violence in the genre of family portraiture and the contemporary redeployment of this genre in Edouard Duval-Carrié's Mardi Gras at Fort Dimanche (1992) and Ebony G. Patterson's Entourage (2010). As metapictures (following W. J. T. Mitchell), Duval-Carrié and Patterson's art detonate the expectation of stillness attached to genre. Instead, these works challenge, illuminate, and reform interdiscursive Caribbean epistemologies of violence, trauma, and memory that continue to reverberate across space and time
Aesthetics · Art · Criticism · Literature · Modernity · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · History · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |