“By thinking art history from and with the Caribbean, Erica Moiah James demands a reorientation and expansion of the theoretical toolkit used to understand the region. Her questioning of the analytical purchase of Caliban disturbs the taken-for-grantedness of earlier examinations of the Caribbean while opening up space for how we might think it otherwise. <i>After Caliban</i> will be of great significance, having an important impact on the field of art history, especially in this moment as attempts are being made to decolonize the discipline.” - Wayne Modest, Professor of Material Culture and Critical Heritage Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam <br /> <br />“Insightful, transformative, and a must read, <i>After Caliban</i> centers artists working in the 1990s who newly reenvisioned history and the world from a Caribbean perspective and offered a decolonial critique of art history in the process.” - Krista A. Thompson, author of <i>Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice</i>
Introduction. “Wat Wrong wit Dis Place?” 1
1. From Behind God’s Back: Janine Antoni’s Embodied Histories 37
2. Meeting in the Upper Room: Belkis AyÓn’s La Cena, 1988–1993 77
3. Historical Drag: Genre, Violence, and History in Edouard Duval-CarriÉ’s Mardigras at Fort Dimanche, 1992 121
4. The Caribbean Does Not Exist: Maurizio Cattelan’s 6th Caribbean Biennial, 1999 163
5. “Wrong Way” Lenny, Tempests, and Other DÈtournements 205
Notes 223
Bibliography 259
Index