Black cultural production after civil rights /
Robert J. Patterson and his contributors interrogate how African American writers and cultural producers use black modes of cultural expressivity to engage, make and change history in order to imagine the future and to provide alternate ways of thinking, existing and being for black subjects in part...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2019]
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| Summary: | Robert J. Patterson and his contributors interrogate how African American writers and cultural producers use black modes of cultural expressivity to engage, make and change history in order to imagine the future and to provide alternate ways of thinking, existing and being for black subjects in particular, and American citizens in general, in the midst of this historical paradox. This volume insists that black cultural production during the 1970s anchors the philosophical, aesthetic and political debates that animate contemporary debates in African American studies, and insists that, despite abject social and political conditions, black cultural production keeps imagining black thriving. Simultaneously, it demonstrates the specific ways that the cultural production itself re(imagines) ways to transform that which prevents black thriving. Thus, the volume argues that African American cultural production continues to engage in social critique and transformation and remains an important site for the (re)making of black politics. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780252042775 0252042778 9780252084607 0252084608 |