Radical aesthetics and modern Black nationalism /

This project links the engagement of Black nationalist activism to artistic experimentation in recent African American literature, visual art and film. GerShun Avilez argues that the ideology of modern Black nationalism functions as a dominant means for artistic and theoretical experimentation in Af...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Avilez, GerShun, 1980- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016]
Series:	New Black studies series.
Subjects:	African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century. Black nationalism > United States > History > 20th century. American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. Black Arts movement. African American arts > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The art of revolution
The question of "closing ranks"
The claim of innocence: deconstructing the machinery of whiteness
The suspicion of kinship: critiquing the construct of black unity
The bodily logic of "revolutionizing the mind"
The demands on reproduction: worrying the limits of gender identity
The space of sex: reconfiguring the coordinates of subjectivity
Conclusion: queering representation.