Dr. Laura Harris has released a new book entitled Experiments in Exile: C. L. R. James, Hélio Oiticica, and the Aesthetic Sociality of Blackness.
The book is published by Fordham University Press and is available for purchase via the publisher or Amazon.com.
Description from Fordham University Press:
"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."
