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Title
Basquiat's and Ofili's Double Consciousness: An Exploration of Transnational Black Identity Through African Diasporic Art. |
Full text
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/137255 |
Date
2020 |
Author(s)
Quist, Dzifa |
Contributor(s)
Thakur, Vineet |
Abstract
People of African descent in the West share a similar experience of oppression through European colonization and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. Such a shared experience has led to a transnational black consciousness. The black scholars W.E.B. DuBois and Frantz Fanon both discussed this concept, which describes an the existence of transnational black solidarity and identity, due to the subjugation to oppression. The black race has become the subject of negative discourses, a product of white supremacy and western hegemony. This thesis is a postcolonial reading of the artworks of black American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Black British artist Chris Ofili, through which we explore the transnational connection among the peoples of the African diaspora. With the use of semiotic analysis, we uncover the hidden meanings within Basquiat's and Ofili's work, analyzing the themes of being black in the West and being black in connection to the African diaspora. |
Subject(s)
Race; Diaspora; African diaspora; Transnational identity; Black identity; Double consciousness; Art |
Language
en-US |
Type of publication
Master thesis |
Repository
Leiden - University of Leiden
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