Bringing the ends of the world together

Bringing together the ends of the world is an encounter with artistic works, literary and critical, American and Caribbean, which carry within them the memory of transatlantic slavery. By invoking artists, writers and intellectuals who based their practice on the irreversible rupture caused Through four centuries of triangular trade, Elvan Zabunyan questions this that this story continues to produce today. The artistic works are here invoked as many primary sources revisiting the realities and the imaginary. The history of slavery and post-slavery represents for the artists evoked a unifying engine of their productions, revealing a common Afro-descendant genealogy that would strengthen solidarity. survival of memory traces and their transmission, whatever the affiliations and experiences, is linked to a philosophical will and shared policy, making dispersion and fragmentation a question eminently aesthetic. Works of art are therefore thought of as traits of union between different cultures and adopt a critical function. highlighting the violence and suffering of these individual experiences and collectively, they make it possible to reconstruct shaky sections of this history. The artists and writers whose works punctuate the story Elvan Zabunyan thus seizes a cultural legacy to make it the material of their work, while conducting an analysis of the political conditions which define this heritage. By calling upon contemporary artists such as Renée Green, Isaac Julien, Arthur Jafa, Ellen Gallagher or Carrie Mae Weems at the alongside figures who experienced slavery such as Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, the author weaves a story set in of slavery, rooted in post-colonial studies and art history concerned about the influence of affects.