Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman

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The Politics of Experiment in Contemporary African Diasporic Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman examines how contemporary avant-garde black art and writing by Wangechi Mutu, Marci Blackman, Alexandria Smith, Colson Whitehead, Toni Morrison, Harmony Holiday, and Essex Hemphill use experimental methods to represent and imaginatively remediate racial harm.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 229mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9781478030201
• ISBN-10: 1478030208
• Artikelnr.: 69121596

Autorenporträt

Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Brown University and the author of Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Toward a Radical Theory of the Black Avant-Garde  1
1. Black Grotesquerie  25
2. Hollowed Blackness  49
3. Black Cacophony  77
4. The Black Ecstatic  105
Epilogue. On Sustenance and Suture  131
Acknowledgments  137
Notes  141
Bibliography  157
Index  165