The racial imaginary : writers on race in the life of the mind / eds., Claudia Rankine, Beth Loffreda, and Max King Cap.

"In 2011, poet Claudia Rankine created Open Letter, a web-forum for writers to relate the personal effects and ideological affects of racial difference, and to explore art's struggle to adequately imagine. Collected and introduced here by Rankine and scholar Beth Loffreda, these letters offer a nece...

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Other Authors: Rankine, Claudia, 1963- (Editor)
Loffreda, Beth (Editor)
Cap, Max King (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Albany, NY : Fence Books, [2016]
Subjects:
Race in literature.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Race relations in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Identity politics.
Poetry > Black authors > History and criticism.
Poetics.
American literature > African American authors.
Poetry > Black authors.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Format: Book
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Summary:
"In 2011, poet Claudia Rankine created Open Letter, a web-forum for writers to relate the personal effects and ideological affects of racial difference, and to explore art's struggle to adequately imagine. Collected and introduced here by Rankine and scholar Beth Loffreda, these letters offer a necessary re-opening of the vexed site of raced identity in the arts as practiced and as produced. This urgent project finds a complement in artist Max King Cap's curation of contemporary art-images that read and see race"--Back cover.
Call Number:PS228.R32 R33 2016
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781934200797
1934200794