John Brooks examines a range of abstractionist, experimental, and genre-defying works by Black writers and artists that challenge how audiences perceive and imagine race. He argues that literature and visual art that exceed the confines of familiar conceptions of Black identity can upend received ideas about race and difference.
John Brooks examines a range of abstractionist, experimental, and genre-defying works by Black writers and artists that challenge how audiences perceive and imagine race. He argues that literature and visual art that exceed the confines of familiar conceptions of Black identity can upend received ideas about race and difference.
Acknowledgments Introduction: Encountering Illegibility: The Enactment of Critical Blackness Part I. Vision 1. Picturing Blackness in the Photography of Roy DeCarava 2. A Muse for Blackness: Kara Walker's "Outlaw Rebel" Vision Part II. Genre 3. Antiessentialist Form: The Bebop Effect of Percival Everett's Erasure 4. Beyond Satire: The Humor of Incongruity in Paul Beatty's The Sellout Part III. History 5. The Politics of Inertia: Temporal Distortion in Suzan-Lori Parks's 100 Plays for the First Hundred Days 6. Heretical Poetics in Robin Coste Lewis's The Voyage of the Sable Venus Afterword: Critical Blackness in Contexts Notes Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Introduction: Encountering Illegibility: The Enactment of Critical Blackness Part I. Vision 1. Picturing Blackness in the Photography of Roy DeCarava 2. A Muse for Blackness: Kara Walker's "Outlaw Rebel" Vision Part II. Genre 3. Antiessentialist Form: The Bebop Effect of Percival Everett's Erasure 4. Beyond Satire: The Humor of Incongruity in Paul Beatty's The Sellout Part III. History 5. The Politics of Inertia: Temporal Distortion in Suzan-Lori Parks's 100 Plays for the First Hundred Days 6. Heretical Poetics in Robin Coste Lewis's The Voyage of the Sable Venus Afterword: Critical Blackness in Contexts Notes Bibliography Index
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