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Radical aesthetics and modern black nationalism / GerShun Avilez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Avilez, GerShun, 1980- author.
- Series:
- New Black studies series
- The New Black Studies Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Intellectual life.
- Black nationalism--United States--History--20th century.
- Black nationalism.
- United States.
- History.
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--African American authors.
- Black Arts movement.
- African American arts--20th century.
- African American arts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016]
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- GerShun Avilez explores the overlooked links between black nationalist activism and the artistic renaissance emerging from recent African American literature, visual art, and film. Charting a new genealogy of contemporary African American artistic production, Avilez illuminates how questions of gender and sexuality guided artistic experimentation in the Black Arts Movement from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. As Avilez shows, the artistic production of the Black Arts era provides a set of critical methodologies and paradigms rooted in the disidentification with black nationalist discourses. Close readings study how this emerging subjectivity, termed aesthetic radicalism, critiqued nationalist rhetoric in the past and continues to offer novel means for expressing black intimacy and embodiment. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the art of revolution
- The claim of innocence: deconstructing the machinery of whiteness
- The suspicion of kinship : critiquing the construct of black unity
- The demands on reproduction : worrying the limits of gender identity
- The space of sex : reconfiguring the coordinates of subjectivity
- Conclusion : queering representation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles D. Dickey, Jr., Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Avilez, GerShun, 1980- Radical aesthetics and modern Black nationalism
- ISBN:
- 9780252098321
- 0252098323
- Publisher Number:
- 99985396227
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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