How to go mad without losing your mind : madness and Black radical creativity / La Marr Jurelle Bruce.

"Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly." So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theorizes overlapping meanings of madness: the lived experience of an unruly mind, the psychiatric categor...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Black outdoors.
Main Author: Bruce, La Marr Jurelle, 1981- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Series:Black outdoors.
Subjects:
African American artists.
African Americans in the performing arts.
Racism > United States > Psychological aspects.
Racism and the arts > United States.
Racism in popular culture > United States.
Eurocentrism > Psychological aspects.
Creative ability > Psychological aspects.
Racism and the arts.
Racism in popular culture.
Racism > Psychological aspects.
United States.
Physical Description:xiii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Prelude. The slave ship tows the ship of fools
  • Mad is a place
  • "He blew his brains out through the trumpet" : Buddy Bolden and the impossible sound of madness
  • Interlude. "No wiggles in the dark of her soul" : Black neurosis, art, murder
  • The blood-stained bed
  • A portrait of the artist as a mad Black woman
  • "The people inside my head, too" : madness, Black womanhood, and the radical performance of Lauryn Hill
  • The joker's wild but that nigga's crazy : Dave Chappelle laughs until it hurts
  • Songs in madtime : madness, Black music, and metaphysical syncopation
  • Afterword. The nutty professor (A confession).