Black Post-Blackness

The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics

Margo Natalie Crawford (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2017
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08249-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Margo Natalie Crawford is an associate professor of English at Cornell University.

CoverTitleContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1.The Aesthetics of Anticipation2.The Politics of Abstraction3.The Counter-Literacy of Black Mixed Media4.The Local and the Global: BLKARTSOUTH and Callaloo5.The Satire of Black Post-Blackness6.Black Inside/Out: Public Interiority and Black Aesthetics7.Who’s Afraid of the Black Fantastic? The Substance of SurfaceEpilogue: Feeling Black Post-BlackNotesIndex

Erscheinungsdatum	03.06.2017
Reihe/Serie	New Black Studies Series
Zusatzinfo	35 black & white photographs
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	399 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-252-08249-4 / 0252082494
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08249-8 / 9780252082498
Zustand	Neuware