List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1

Part I. Art's Critique of Representation 37

1. The Fragile Inheritors 39

2. Busy in the Ruins of Wretched Phantasia 50

Part II. Differential Proliferations 87

3. Marronage of the Wandering Eye: Keith Piper 89

4. Mortal Coil: Eros and Diaspora in the Photographs of Rotimi Fani-Kayode 97

5. Avid Iconographies: Isaac Julien 129

6. Art That Is Ethnic is Inverted Commas: Yinka Shonibare 147

Part III. Global Modernities 155

7. Home from Home: Portraits from Places in Between 157

8. African Photography in Contemporary Visual Culture 170

9. Ethnicity and Internationality: New British Art and Diaspora-Based Blackness 186

10. Documenta 11 207

Part IV. Detours and Returns 215

11. A Sociography of Diaspora 217

12. Diaspora Aesthetics and Visual Culture 227

13. Art History after Globalization: Formations of the Colonial Modern 248

14. The Cross-Cultural and the Contemporary 262

Part V. Journeying 277

15. Postcolonial Trauerspiel: Black Audio Film Collective 279

16. Archive and Dépaysement in the Art of Renée Green 294

17. Kerry James Marshall: The Painter of Afro-Modern Life 310

18. Hew Locke's Postcolonial Baroque 321

Bibliography 347

Index 357