Relational Undercurrents

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