The racial unfamiliar : illegibility in Black literature and culture / John Brooks.

"Through what strategies might contemporary artists confront cultural assumptions about race? In what ways can the devices that make race feel familiar-such as stereotypes or strategic essentialism-be used to make race feel unfamiliar? What new perspectives might emerge out of such disorienting conf...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brooks, John, 1989- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]
Series:Literature now.
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
African American art > 21st century.
African Americans > Race identity.
Race in literature.
Race in art.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans in art.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 21st century.
Art noir américain > 21e siècle.
Noirs américains > Identité ethnique.
Race dans la littérature.
Race dans l'art.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Noirs américains dans l'art.
Noirs américains > Vie intellectuelle > 21e siècle.
African American art.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
American literature > African American authors.
2000-2099
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Physical Description:xi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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