Abstractionist aesthetics : artistic form and social critique in African American culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harper, Phillip Brian
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2015]
Series:NYU series in social and cultural analysis.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Against positive images
  • Black personhood in the maw of abstraction
  • Historical cadence and the nitty-gritty effect
  • Telling it slant
  • Coda: The literary advantage.