Invisible Surrealists grapples with the Surrealism of the postcolonial imagination, a challenge to colonial power and its ability to control native and migrant populations through careful administration, indoctrination, surveillance, and the management of every level of civil life. If colonialism controlled the outside world, then many artists on the margins found that their only freedom was to be experienced through inner fantasy, a world freed from external misery. Figures like Martiniquais poet and politician Aimé Césaire said Surrealism helped him to free up his poetic language and understand the liberating impact of words. Cuban Surrealist painter Wilfredo Lam explained, “My painting is an act of decolonization.” The rhetoric of Surrealism was largely anti-imperialist. hyperallergic/154167/the-revolutionary-postcolonial-imagination-of-surrealism/
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