{"product_id":"african-venice-a-guide-to-art-culture-and-people-paperback","title":"African Venice: A Guide to Art, Culture and People - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Kaplan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eShaul Bassi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eIgiaba Scego\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eAfrican Venice\u003c\/i\u003e is the first guidebook to the extensive historical and contemporary African presence in the city of the lagoons. A set of ten walking tours highlights images of Black people in Venetian art from the Middle Ages to the present, the afterlife of Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eOthello\u003c\/i\u003e, the painful local legacies of slavery and Italian colonialism, and the remarkable visibility of African and Afro-descendant artists at the Venice Biennale. These tours are enriched by more than twenty essays, poems, and reflections that celebrate, question, and reimagine Venice's Black past and present. From premodern paintings and sculpture to contemporary artworks, \u003ci\u003eAfrican Venice\u003c\/i\u003e will show you the city as you have never seen it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book includes contributions from Marilena Umuhoza Delli, Rita Dove, Emiliano Guaraldo, Eddy L. Harris, Lorenzo Lazzarini, Ibrahima L?, Vittorio Longhi, Olga Manente, Tony Mochama, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Caryl Phillips, Sandra Stocchetto, Sami Tchak, Ngūgī wa Thiong'o, and Alessandra Viola.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePaul Kaplan\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Art History at Purchase College, SUNY. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eContraband Guides: Race, Transatlantic Culture, and the Arts in the Civil War Era\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Penn State University Press and \u003ci\u003eThe Rise of the Black Magus in Western Art\u003c\/i\u003e, and a contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe Image of the Black in Western Art. \u003c\/i\u003eHe served as Project Scholar for Fred Wilson's \u003ci\u003eSpeak of Me as I Am\u003c\/i\u003e, an installation in the American Pavilion of the 2003 Venice Biennale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eShaul Bassi\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English and the Director of the Center for Humanities and Social Change at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eShakespeare's Italy and Italy's Shakespeare: Place, \"Race,\" Politics \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ecoeditor\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eof \u003ci\u003eVenice and the Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Guide. \u003c\/i\u003eHe is the cofounder of the Venice international literary festival Incroci di civilt?. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eIgiaba Scego\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Somali-Italian writer, public intellectual, and scholar. Her numerous award-winning publications include, in English translation, the novels \u003ci\u003eAdua\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeyond Babylon\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Color Line\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eMaaza Mengiste\u003c\/strong\u003e's debut novel \u003ci\u003eBeneath the Lion's Gaze\u003c\/i\u003e was selected by \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e as one of the ten best contemporary African books. Her novel \u003ci\u003eThe Shadow King\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 8.26 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53333713191219,"sku":"9780271099934","price":69.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/BLfijgqjDx9780271099934.webp?v=1778316620","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/african-venice-a-guide-to-art-culture-and-people-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}