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Suffering, Art, and Aesthetics This page intentionally left blank Suffering, Art, and Aesthetics Edited by Ratiba Hadj-Moussa and Michael Nijhawan SUFFERING,ART,ANDAESTHETICS Copyright©RatibaHadj-MoussaandMichaelNijhawan,2014. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-42607-9 Allrightsreserved. Firstpublishedin2014by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN® intheUnitedStates—adivisionofSt.Martin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. WherethisbookisdistributedintheUK,Europeandtherestofthe World,thisisbyPalgraveMacmillan,adivisionofMacmillanPublishers Limited,registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,of Houndmills,Basingstoke,HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabove companiesandhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnited States,theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN 978-1-349-49069-1 ISBN 978-1-137-42608-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137426086 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Suffering,art,andaesthetics/editedbyRatibaHadj-Moussa& MichaelNijhawan. pages cm Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. 1. Sufferinginart. 2. Artsandsociety. 3. Aesthetics,Modern. I. Hadj-Moussa,Ratiba,editorofcompilation. II. Nijhawan,Michael,editorofcompilation. NX650.S94S842014 700.1(cid:2)08—dc23 2014003097 AcataloguerecordofthebookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. DesignbyIntegraSoftwareServices Firstedition:July2014 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents ListofFigures vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction:SufferinginArts:RethinkingtheBoundaries 1 RatibaHadj-MoussaandMichaelNijhawan 1 InPraiseofAmbiguity:OntheVisualEconomyof DistantSuffering 23 FuyukiKurasawa 2 DenialandChallengeofModernity:Suffering, Recognition,andDignityinPhotographs bySammyBaloji 51 BogumilJewsiewicki 3 Event,Image,Affect:TheTsunamiintheFolkArt ofBengal 75 RomaChatterji 4 VocalizationsofSuffering 99 CaterinaPasqualino 5 TheArtofSuffering:Postcolonial(Mis)Apprehensions ofNigerianArt 121 ConerlyCasey 6 ThePast’sSufferingandtheBody’sSuffering:Algerian CinemaandtheChallengeofExperience 151 RatibaHadj-Moussa 7 TheDiasporicRasa ofSuffering:Notesonthe AestheticsofImageandSoundinIndo-Caribbeanand SikhPopularArt 177 MichaelNijhawanandAnnaC.Schultz vi Contents 8 TheArtofInflictingSuffering:AnimalsandSpectators intheCrucibleofContemporaryArt 207 NathalieHeinich NotesonContributors 225 Index 227 Figures 1.1 Thesymbolicstructureoftheimage(Kurasawa) 26 1.2 Thecirculationoftheimage(Kurasawa) 29 2.1 Coloniebelge,B.Jewsiewickicollection 53 2.2 Series“Corpsetmasques,”bySammyBaloji,with permission 56 2.3 “Travailleursnus,”bySammyBaloji,withpermission 61 2.4 “Masque”bySammyBaloji,withpermission 66 2.5 SlaveTrade,B.JewsiewickiCollection 69 3.1 Thirdregisterofatsunamipata.Artist:Banku Chitrakar,village:Habichak 80 3.2 Fourthregisterofthesamepata.Artist:Banku Chitrakar 80 3.3 Firstregisterofafloodpata.Artist:MantuChitrakar, village:Naya 82 3.4 Lastregisterofafloodpata.Artist:MoinaChitrakar, village:Naya 83 3.5 FirstframeofGurupada’s“international”tsunami pata.Village:Naya 87 3.6 LastregisterofTagar’stsunamipata 91 3.7 FirstregisterofTagar’stsunamipata 91 5.1 SpiritPossessionbyAbdulhamidYusuf,Kano, Nigeria,1995 136 5.2 Witchcraft byAbdulhamidYusuf,Kano,Nigeria,1995 137 5.3 EvilEye byAbdulhamidYusuf,Kano,Nigeria,1995 138 5.4 EvilWords byAbdulhamidYusuf,Kano,Nigeria,1995 139 7.1 1984andtheStormingoftheGoldenTemple bythe SinghTwins 181 7.2 NineteenEighy-Four bytheSinghTwins 183 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments Webegantheworkonthisvolumeafewyearsagowhenrealizingour shared interest in issues of violence, suffering, and art. At that time, webothhadconductedresearchoncinemaandtransnationalmediain North Africa (Ratiba), and the politics of performance in South Asia and its diasporas (Michael). In both scenarios the effects of political violenceandsocialsufferingwerepervasive.Littledidweknow,how- ever, that our common journey would lead us to a long and winding pathofconceptualizingatopicthatontheonehandseemedsaturated withnewideas,especiallyinthefieldofvisualstudies,andontheother handlackedanadequatefocusinourowndisciplinesofsociologyand anthropology.Hence,itwasnotaneasytaskeithertolocateourvoice or to assemble texts that would represent what we thought best cap- tured a multidisciplinary take on rethinking the relationship between artandsuffering.Wearethereforeespeciallygratefultoallthosewho worked with us, entrusted us with their thoughts and ideas, and had thestaminatojoinour“stubborn”persistenceinturningthisworkof collectedarticlesintoahopefullycompellingbook. Our thanks go first and foremost to our contributors for their fair play in accepting to revise their texts as many times as we judged it necessary,theirpatiencethroughtheprocessofbookcompletion,and alltheirencouragementsandcriticalfeedbacktheyofferedatdifferent stages.Inthelastfewyearswehavealsobenefitedfromconversations with colleagues and graduate students at York University and else- wherewhohavesupportedusandkeptusontrackwithourenterprise. Willi Goetschel, Kate Pendakis, Roma Chatterji, Chris Berry, Martin Lefebvre, and the anonymous reviewers of our work for Palgrave Macmillandeserveaspecialnoteofthanksfortheirpositivefeedback on the design of the volume as a whole and specifically on how to frame our introductory chapter. We would also like to thank Peter Couto,DuyguGül,KatePendakis,andJasonWebbfortheireditorial workandfortheirrevisionsatvariousstagesofthemanuscript.Weare indebtedtoRanaSukariehforthefinalcopyeditingbeforemanuscript submissionunderheavytimeconstraintsandtoAliciaFilipowichfrom
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