Bruno Zhu
FICTION NON FICTION
Volume 2

paperback
14,80 cm x 19,5 cm
190 pages
English

with texts by: Jean Comaroff, Simon Gikandi, Stuart Hall, Kate Haulman, Eugénia Rodrigues, Regina A. Root, Victoria L. Rovine, and José Carvalho Vanzelli

co-edited by Bruno Zhu & CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian
design: Enver Hadzijaj
typsetting: Sarah Thußbas
co-published by CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, to accompany the exhibition Bruno Zhu: ‘Belas Artes’, 28.02 – 27.07.2026

ISBN 978-3-948546-62-5

Está disponível aqui uma edição em português

Fiction Non Fiction is a series of readers that pairs voices in literary criticism with the material histories of labor, gender, and race. Each volume proposes a close-reading of fictitious and theoretical works to explore how identity politics have been narrativized by liberal institutions across space and time.

Volume II, published on the occasion of Belas Artes, Bruno Zhu’s exhibition at CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, Lisbon, is anchored by the centrality of how one looks. Ranging from domestic scenes in the female-owned prazos of Zambezi Valley, the trade of Indian calico, the 19th century British Nonconformist campaign in Southern Tswana, and accounts of Chinese workers by writer Eça de Queiroz, this reader surveys the role of dress in colonial and postcolonial contexts.

Featuring contributions by Jean Comaroff, Simon Gikandi, Stuart Hall, Kate Haulman, Eugénia Rodrigues, Regina A. Root, Victoria L. Rovine, and José Carvalho Vanzelli, Volume II addresses how fashion facilitated idealized images of the Other to serve the unity of the colonial topos.