Black post-blackness : the Black Arts Movement and twenty-first-century aesthetics / Margo Natalie Crawford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crawford, Margo Natalie, 1969- author.

Series:

New Black studies series

New Black Studies Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African-American literature and culture--21st century.

African-American literature and culture.

Black Arts movement--21st century.

Black Arts movement.

Black nationalism.

Physical Description:

xi, 264 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

regular print

Place of Publication:

Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, [2017]

Summary:

A 2008 cover of The New Yorker featured a much-discussed Black Power parody of Michelle and Barack Obama. The image put a spotlight on how easy it is to flatten the Black Power movement as we imagine new types of blackness. Margo Natalie Crawford argues that we have misread the Black Arts Movement's call for blackness. We have failed to see the movement's anticipation of the "new black" and "post-black." Black Post-Blackness compares the black avant-garde of the 1960s and 1970s Black Arts Movement with the most innovative spins of twenty-first century black aesthetics. Crawford zooms in on the 1970s second wave of the Black Arts Movement and shows the connections between this final wave of the Black Arts movement and the early years of twenty-first century black aesthetics. She uncovers the circle of black post-blackness that pivots on the power of anticipation, abstraction, mixed media, the global South, satire, public interiority, and the fantastic.

Contents:

Introduction

The aesthetics of anticipation

The politics of abstraction

The counter-literacy of black mixed media

The local and the global : BLKARTSOUTH and Callaloo

The satire of black post-blackness

Black inside/out : public interiority and black aesthetics

Who's afraid of the black fantastic? The substance of surface

Epilogue : Feeling black post-black.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-254) and index.

ISBN:

9780252041006

0252041003

9780252082498

0252082494

OCLC:

962232102