Contents: SWAMPED? - Editorial; INNOCENCE & NEO-COLONIALISM by Ariel Dorfman; “PAKI BASTARD" by Rasheed Araeen; CULTURAL COLONIALISM by Kenneth Coutts-Smith; WHERE IS NGUGI A report by Chris Wanjala; NOTES ON ART & LIBERATION STRUGGLE by N. Kilele; AN INTRODUCTION TO RADICAL URDU POETRY by Mahmood Jamal; AFRO-CARIBBEAN ART An analysis by Rasheed Araeen.
“Published in three issues between 1978 and 1979, Black Phoenix […] stands as a key document of its time. More than a decade after '60s liberation movements and the historic Bandung and Tricontinental Conferences that called for social and political alignment and solidarity to dismantle Western imperialism and (neo)colonialism, Black Phoenix issued a rallying call for the formation of a Third World, liberatory arts and culture movement on the eve of Margaret Thatcher's election in 1979.
Based in the UK, and both international and national in scope, Black Phoenix positioned diasporic and colonial histories at the center of an evolving anti-racist and anti-imperialist consciousness in late 1970s Britain--one that would yield complex and nuanced discourses on race, class and postcolonial theory in England in the decade that followed.
A precursor to the British Black Arts Movement that formed in 1982 (which encompassed such cultural practitioners as the Black Audio Film Collective and cultural studies theorist Stuart Hall), Black Phoenix proposed a horizon for Blackness beyond racial binaries, across the Third World and the colonized of the interior in the West.” – From the synopsis to the 2022 facsimile reprint published by Primary Information
Title: Black Phoenix - Third World Perspective on Contemporary Art and Culture
Authors: Rasheed Araeen, Mahmood Jamal (eds)
Publisher: Rasheed Araeen, Mahmood Jamal
Publication Date: Summer 1978
Format: stapled softcover
Images: illustrated in b/w
Pages: 31 pp.
Language: English
Condition: fine
Provenance: The Library of Rod Hill
Stock Number: RB05151 RH
Contents: SWAMPED? - Editorial; INNOCENCE & NEO-COLONIALISM by Ariel Dorfman; “PAKI BASTARD" by Rasheed Araeen; CULTURAL COLONIALISM by Kenneth Coutts-Smith; WHERE IS NGUGI A report by Chris Wanjala; NOTES ON ART & LIBERATION STRUGGLE by N. Kilele; AN INTRODUCTION TO RADICAL URDU POETRY by Mahmood Jamal; AFRO-CARIBBEAN ART An analysis by Rasheed Araeen.
“Published in three issues between 1978 and 1979, Black Phoenix […] stands as a key document of its time. More than a decade after '60s liberation movements and the historic Bandung and Tricontinental Conferences that called for social and political alignment and solidarity to dismantle Western imperialism and (neo)colonialism, Black Phoenix issued a rallying call for the formation of a Third World, liberatory arts and culture movement on the eve of Margaret Thatcher's election in 1979.
Based in the UK, and both international and national in scope, Black Phoenix positioned diasporic and colonial histories at the center of an evolving anti-racist and anti-imperialist consciousness in late 1970s Britain--one that would yield complex and nuanced discourses on race, class and postcolonial theory in England in the decade that followed.
A precursor to the British Black Arts Movement that formed in 1982 (which encompassed such cultural practitioners as the Black Audio Film Collective and cultural studies theorist Stuart Hall), Black Phoenix proposed a horizon for Blackness beyond racial binaries, across the Third World and the colonized of the interior in the West.” – From the synopsis to the 2022 facsimile reprint published by Primary Information
Title: Black Phoenix - Third World Perspective on Contemporary Art and Culture
Authors: Rasheed Araeen, Mahmood Jamal (eds)
Publisher: Rasheed Araeen, Mahmood Jamal
Publication Date: Summer 1978
Format: stapled softcover
Images: illustrated in b/w
Pages: 31 pp.
Language: English
Condition: fine
Provenance: The Library of Rod Hill
Stock Number: RB05151 RH
