Another excellent Duke University Press title that was indexed by Southwest Humanities will soon be published! This one is Kency Cornejo’s Visual Disobedience: Art and Decoloniality in Central America (Duke University Press, 2024), which will be released on October 18. Visual Disobedience “traces the emergence of new artistic strategies for Indigenous, feminist, and anticarceral resistance in the wake of torture, disappearance, killings, and US-funded civil wars in Central America,” revealing “a direct line from US intervention to current forms of racial, economic, and gender injustice in the isthmus, connecting this to the criminalization and incarceration of migrants at the US-Mexico border today.” Based on interviews with curators and artists from Central America and examining dozens of artists and their works, Cornejo’s book emphasizes the notion of visual disobedience as a decolonial aesthetic strategy. For more information about this excellent new title, please see the publisher’s website here, where you can also read the book’s introduction.
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