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Experiments In Exile: C. L. R. James, Hélio Oiticica, And The Aesthetic Sociality Of Blackness

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Comparing radical experiments undertaken by Trinidadian writer C. L. R. James and Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica, Experiments in Exile charts their common desire to reconceive citizenship. Laura Harris shows how James and Oiticica gravitate toward and attempt to relay the ongoing renewal of dissident, dissonant social forms that constitute what she calls “the aesthetic sociality of blackness,” in the barrack-yards of Port-of-Spain and the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the assembly lines of Detroit and the streets of the New York, ultimately challenging rather than rehabilitating normative conceptions of citizens and polities as well as authors and artworks.

Author(s): Laura Harris
Series: Commonalities
Publisher: Fordham University Press/American Literatures Initiative
Year: 2019

Language: English
Pages: 233
Tags: Hélio Oiticica, Experiments, Aesthetic Sociality, Blackness

Cover......Page 1
EXPERIMENTS IN EXILE......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
Introduction: Experiments in Exile......Page 10
1 What Happened to the Motley Crew? James, Oiticica, and the Aesthetic Sociality of Blackness......Page 26
2 Dialectic of Contact: The Organ/ization and the Nests......Page 70
3 Undocuments: Reproduction at the Margins......Page 127
Acknowledgments......Page 180
Notes......Page 184
Bibliography......Page 214
Index......Page 226