Tatiana Flores is Associate Professor of Art History and Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and the author of Mexico's Revolutionary Avant-Gardes: From Estridentismo to ¡30-30!.
Michelle Ann Stephens is Professor of English and Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and coeditor of Archipelagic American Studies, also published by Duke University Press.
Foreword / Lourdes I. Ramos-Rivas, PhD 11
Part I. Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago
1. Relational Undercurrents: Towards an Archipelagic Model of Insular Caribbean Art / Tatiana Flores and Michelle A. Stephens 14
2. Inscribing into Consciousness: The Work of Caribbean Art / Tatiana Flores 29
Catalogue Images 91
Part II. The Caribbean Islands and Their Diasporas
3. Actes de Transformation: Mixing and Mapping Haitian Aesthetics / Jerry Philogene 191
4. Among the Islands: Dominican Art at Home and Abroad / Rocío Aranda-Alvarado 205
5. A Local History in the Global Narrative: Notes on Cuban Art between Two Centuries / Antonio Eligio (Tonel) 219
6. Aglutinación: The Collective Spirit of Puerto Rican Art / Laura Roulet 231
Part III. The Archipelagic Caribbean
7. On Metaphysical Catastrophe, Post-Continental Thought, and the Decolonial Turn / Nelson Maldonado-Torres 247
8. There are no islands without the sea: Being a compendium of facts, fictions, names, etymologies, lyrics, and questions, in the form of a broken-up archipelago / Nicholas Laughlin 261
9. Arc'd Relations: Archive and Archipelago in the Greater Caribbean / Michelle A. Stephens 278
Exhibition Checklist 294
Artist Biographies / Kaitlyn Argila, Diego Atehortúa, and Kaitlin Booher 300
Contributor Biographies 307
Index 308
Acknowledgments 317
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