Description: Drawing on Aimé Césaire's rewriting of Shakespeare's The Tempest, Erica Moiah James examines the rise of global Caribbean artists in the 1990s and their production of a decolonized art history for the Caribbean.
Review Quotes: "By thinking art history from and with the Caribbean, Erica Moiah James demands a reorientation and expansion of the theoretical toolkit used to understand the region. Her questioning of the analytical purchase of Caliban disturbs the taken-for-grantedness of earlier examinations of the Caribbean while opening up space for how we might think it otherwise. After Caliban will be of great significance, having an important impact on the field of art history, especially in this moment as attempts are being made to decolonize the discipline."--Wayne Modest, Professor of Material Culture and Critical Heritage Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
"Insightful, transformative, and a must read, After Caliban centers artists working in the 1990s who newly reenvisioned history and the world from a Caribbean perspective and offered a decolonial critique of art history in the process."--Krista A. Thompson, author of, Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice "After Caliban proposes a way of interpreting these artistic interventions according to knowledge systems rooted in the Caribbean and its diaspora."Alexandra M. Thomas, Hyperallergic