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IF THE SHOE FITS .

IF THE SHOE FITS . PALIMPSESTS AND PASTICHES OF DIASPORA Palimpsest : Faint remains of lost texts . Pastiche : Incongruous combinations from different dimensions. THE SHOE : AN INVITATION TO WALK INTO THE PICTURE. The shoe as a segue into new forms of knowledges including my own story.

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IF THE SHOE FITS .

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  1. IF THE SHOE FITS. PALIMPSESTS AND PASTICHES OF DIASPORA Palimpsest: Faint remains of lost texts. Pastiche: Incongruous combinations from different dimensions.

  2. THE SHOE: AN INVITATION TO WALK INTO THE PICTURE. The shoe as a segue into new forms of knowledges including my own story. BUT the shoe opens these doors only if history and politics, are the frame

  3. RE-MAKING BURIED HISTORIES:Politics of Palimpsest Bernadine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe They spoke of the great Septimus Severus,  who had gone from African boy to Roman emperor ... Lubaina Himid Naming the Money My name is Kwesi They call me Henry

  4. RE-MAKING BURIED HISTORIES:Politics of Palimpsest (cont.) Swallow Hard:The Lancaster Dinner Service 2007, Lubaina Himid.

  5. RE-MAKING BURIED HISTORIES:Politics of Palimpsest (cont.) SULTER’S RECOVERY AND CONSTRUCTION OF JEANNE DUVAL

  6. RE-MAKING BURIED HISTORIES:Politics of Palimpsest (cont.) SULTER’S RECOVERY AND CONSTRUCTION OF JEANNE DUVAL

  7. RE-MAKING BURIED HISTORIES:Politics of Palimpsest (cont.) SULTER’S RECOVERY AND CONSTRUCTION OF JEANNE DUVAL

  8. PASTICHE ENTERS THE FRAME OF THE PALIMPSEST Duval inspired Baudelaire to write a poem, which inspired Manet to produce his famous painting.

  9. PASTICHE ENTERS THE FRAME OF THE PALIMPSEST August Sander, Circus People, 1930. Sulter produces her own counter-image:

  10. PASTICHE ENTERS THE FRAME OF THE PALIMPSEST

  11. STORIES – MAUD SULTER’S, ESI EDUGYAN’S AND MINE. Sulter’s poetic-story -“Blood Money” - the life of a Cameroonian young girl called Monique - “There’s no way I can make this poem rhyme”. Esi Edugyan’s Half Blood Blues - Hitler’s thugs lump together blacks and Jews as in “‘Jewkikes!’” and “‘Niggerkikes!’” Maud Sulter: the presence of Africa in Europe Me: The presence of Europe in Africa

  12. IF THE SHOE FITS, WEAR IT. The “punctum” sabotages our expectations and creates the artistry of the entire work (Roland Barthes).

  13. I entered through the intricately carved door of Maud Sulter’s studio

  14. The studio door swung itself off its hinges and on its magic wings we flew to the digital site

  15. Kwesi was liberated from where he had lain, petrified in rock

  16. I looked again at Maud Sulter’s artwork in all its holistic magnificence& saw the miracle of her big shoeprint on the mountain – Cape Town’s Table Mountain perhaps?

  17. Thank You Presentation and sources at: www.burnishwriting.com

  18. References: Roland Barthes, 2000, 1980,Camera Lucida, Vintage. EsiEdugyan, 2011, Half Blood Blues,Serpent’s Tail. Bernadine Evaristo, 2001,The Emperor’s Babe, Penguin. LubainaHimid, 2004, Naming the Money, Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. LubainaHimid, 2007, Swallow Hard:The Lancaster Dinner Service http://lubainahimid.info/swallow_hard_lancaster_dinner_service August Sander, 1930, “Circus People”, http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A5145&page_number=31&template_id=1&sort_order=1 Maud Sulter’sDigital Image: http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/photography/story.php?storyid=ph052&row=7 Maud Sulter, 1994, SYRCAS, Clwyd County Council Maud Sulter, 2003, Jeanne Duval: A Melodrama, National Galleries of Scotland.

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