Radical aesthetics and modern Black nationalism / GerShun Avilez.

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"This project links the engagement of Black nationalist activism to artistic experimentation in recent African American literature, visual art, and film. GerShun Avilez argues that the ideology of modern Black nationalism functions as a dominant means for artistic and theoretical experimentation in...

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Main Author: Avilez, GerShun, 1980- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016]
Series:New Black studies series.
Subjects:
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Black nationalism > United States > History > 20th century.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Black Arts movement.
African American arts > 20th century.
Physical Description:xii, 215 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: The art of revolution
  • The question of "closing ranks"
  • The claim of innocence: deconstructing the machinery of whiteness
  • The suspicion of kinship: critiquing the construct of black unity
  • The bodily logic of "revolutionizing the mind"
  • The demands on reproduction: worrying the limits of gender identity
  • The space of sex: reconfiguring the coordinates of subjectivity
  • Conclusion: queering representation.