VISUAL CULTURE
Kobena Mercer: Previous Publications
David Chandler ed., Keith Piper: Relocating the Remains,
London: inIVA, 1997, 96pp, 144 ill. (110 col.), 220 x 310mm,
pb, ISBN 1 899846 10 7Published to coincide with the exhibition of the same name held at the Royal College of Arts, 1997. Essay by Kobena Mercer. Foreword by Gilane Tawadros and David Chandler.
Kobena Mercer, Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black
Cultural Studies, London: Routledge, 1994. 352 pp.
pb, ISBN: 9780415906357, ISBN-10: 041590635Welcome to the Jungle brings a black British perspective to the critical reading of a wide range of cultural texts, events and experiences arising from volatile transformations in the politics of ethnicity, sexuality and “race” during the 1980s. The ten essays collected here examine new forms of cultural expression in black film, photography and visual art exerging with a new generation of black British artists, and interprets this prolific creativity within a sociological framework that reveals fresh perspectives on the bewildering complexity of identity and diversity in an era of postmodernity. Kobena Mercer documents a wealth of insights opened up by the overlapping of Asian, African and Caribbean cultures that constitute Black Britain as a unique domain of diaspora.
