Black Post-Blackness : The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics /

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"A 2008 cover of The New Yorker featured a much-discussed Black Power parody of Michelle and Barack Obama. The image put a spotlight on how easy it is to flatten the Black Power movement as we imagine new types of blackness. Margo Natalie Crawford argues that we have misread the Black Arts Move...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crawford, Margo Natalie, 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
African-American literature and culture > 21st century.
Black nationalism.
Black Arts movement.
Arts, Black.
American literature > African American authors.
ART > Reference.
ART > Performance.
Nationalisme noir.
Black Arts (Mouvement artistique) > 21e siecle.
Black Arts movement > 21st century.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The aesthetics of anticipation
  • The politics of abstraction
  • The counter-literacy of black mixed media
  • The local and the global : BLKARTSOUTH and Callaloo
  • The satire of black post-blackness
  • Black inside/out : public interiority and black aesthetics
  • Who's afraid of the black fantastic? The substance of surface
  • Epilogue : Feeling black post-black.

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