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Deadpan : The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Post, Tina
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2022]
Series:Minoritarian Aesthetics
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
African American arts.
Facial expression in art.
Facial expression in literature.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans in art.
American literature > African American authors.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Some Type of Way
  • 1. Subjectivity and Self-Specimenization
  • 2. Minimalism and the Aesthetics of Black Threat
  • 3. The Opacity Gradient
  • 4. Excess and Absence (or, The Negro Believes ______)
  • 5. Buster Keaton's Black Deadpan
  • Coda: Steve McQueen Takes It Back
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author
  • Color plates appear as an insert following page