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Contemporary African dance theatre aesthetics formulate an outspokenly anti-racist and decolonial perspective in the way that these works challenge historical assumptions of post-Independence African nationalism, whilst at the same time defying the postcolonial notion of a decolonizing mimicry, through a direct confrontation of the white gaze. The book concludes with a few summarizing remarks on the way phenomenology supports the deconstruction of the white gaze through aesthetic modes of un-suturing across the different examples discussed throughout the chapters of the book.
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Sörgel, S. (2020). This Is a Book About Whiteness and the Gaze. In: Contemporary African Dance Theatre. New World Choreographies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41501-3_6
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