How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind : Madness and Black Radical Creativity /

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"Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly." So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theorizes four overlapping meanings of madness: the lived experience of an unruly mind, the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bruce, La Marr Jurelle (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2021]
Colección:Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study : 46
Temas:
African American artists.
African Americans in the performing arts.
Creative ability > Psychological aspects.
Eurocentrism > Psychological aspects.
Racism and the arts > United States.
Racism in popular culture > United States.
Racism > United States > Psychological aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • One. Mad Is a Place
  • Two. "He Blew His Brains Out through the Trumpet"
  • Interlude. "No Wiggles in the Dark of Her Soul"
  • Three. The Blood-Stained Bed
  • Four. A Portrait of the Artist as a Mad Black Woman
  • Five. "The People inside My Head, Too"
  • Six. The Joker's Wild, but That Nigga's Crazy
  • Seven. Songs in Madtime
  • Afterword. The Nutty Professor (A Confession)
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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