Many artists from rural areas in the global south are driven by the functionality of the art object and of naturalism in communicating the urgency of redressing sociopolitical conditions. This article does not advocate a ...

This article aims to map the terrain of postcolonial theory from its Marxist origins, to a postmodern ‘totalizing’, and ‘hegemonic’ view of reading culture. One of the coordinates, that of continuities, reinforces notions ...