Chapter 'Is it possible to represent her freshly without reproducing sexist and racist appropriation?'

When black South African artist Willie Bester, whose art persistently criticizes the colonial and totalitarian history of his country, created a sculpture of Sarah Bartmann (or Saartjie Bartmann) out of recycled material, one wouldn't have imagined so many ruptures from this work. Buikema (2007...

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Main Author: Kisubi Mbasalaki, Phoebe (auth)
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Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2023
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