African Venice: a guide to art, culture and people

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"African Venice is the first guidebook to the extensive historical and contemporary African presence in the City of the Lagoons. A set of ten walking tours highlight images of Black people in the Venetian art from the Middle Ages to the present, the afterlife of Shakespear's Othello, the painful local legacies of slavery and Italian colonialism, as well as the remarkable visibility of African and Afro-descendant artists at the Venice Biennale. These tours are enriched by more thant twenty essays, poems and reflections, which celebrate, question and reimagine Venice's black past and present. From medieval and renasissance paintings and sculpture to contemporary artworks, from early modern documents to postcolonical voices, African Venice will show you the city as you have never seen it."--Inside Front Cover.

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Foreword / lgiaba Scego -- Africa in Venice: The Past / Paul Kaplan -- Africa in Venice: The Present / Shaul Bassi -- Itinerary I: The Buildings of Piazza San Marco and the Piazzetta -- Between Two Worlds / Eddy L. Harris -- African Stones / Lorenzo Lazzarini -- Itinerary II: The Sestiere of San Marco -- Contemporary African Art in Venice -- Itinerary III: The Accademia Museum -- A Miracle in Venice / Maaza Mengiste -- The Black Gondolier / Marilena Umuhoza Delli -- Itinerary IV: The Sestiere of Dorsoduro / Giuseppina Bakhita, Olga Manente -- African Routes of the Venetian Coffee Trade / Sandra Stocchetto -- Home Brew: Preliminary Tasting Notes / Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor -- Itinerary V: The Sestieri of San Polo and Santa Croce -- A Bridge over the Chasm of Indifference / Vittorio Longhi -- The Scents of Africa -- Itinerary VI: The Sestiere of Cannaregio -- Sarah's Blues / Rita Dove -- In the Ghetto / Caryl Phillips -- Death of the Last Venetian Mosquito / Tony Mochama -- Itinerary VII: The Sestiere of Castello -- Resurrection in Venice / Ngŭgĩ wa Thiong'o -- The Garden of Palm Trees / Alessandra Viola -- Itinerary VIII: The Biennale / Emiliano Guaraldo -- Itinerary IX: The Outlying Parts of the Lagoon: the Smaller Islands, Mestre and Marghera -- Beads of Venice / Emiliano Guaraldo -- A Senegalese in Venice / Ibrahima Lö -- The Rabbi / Sami Tchak -- Itinerary X: The Terraferma: Padua, Vicenza, and Verona -- The Least of All Things / Maaza Mengiste.