Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19972725 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gershun Avilez (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 224 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5406/illinois/9780252040122.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2340990894 |
| Open Library | OL28591346M |
| ISBN | 9780252040122 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
This book explores the long-overlooked links between Black Nationalist activism and the renaissance of artistic experimentation emerging from recent African American literature, visual art, and film. The book charts a new genealogy of contemporary African American artistic production that illuminates how questions of gender and sexuality guided artistic experimentation in the Black Arts Movement from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. As the book shows, the artistic production of the Black Arts era provides a set of critical methodologies and paradigms rooted in the disidentification with Black Nationalist discourses. The book studies how this emerging subjectivity, termed aesthetic radicalism, critiqued nationalist rhetoric in the past. It also continues to offer novel means for expressing black intimacy and embodiment via experimental works of art and innovative artistic methods. A bold addition to an advancing field, this book rewrites recent black cultural production even as it uncovers unexpected ways of locating black radicalism
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Black British · Epistemology · Harlem Renaissance · Human sexuality · Nationalism · Performance art · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Subjectivity · The arts · Visual arts · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · African American arts · African American authors · african american authors, history and criticism · African americans · American literature · Black Arts movement · Black nationalism · Film · History · History and criticism · Intellectual life · Kunst · Literatur
The Evidence of Things Unseen
Transnational and Intertextual Geographies of Race, Sex, and Masculinity
The Black Communications Movement
Audre Lorde, Theodor Adorno, and the Administered Word
Alice Childress’s Wedding Band
“How Many Black Hippies Do You See?” The Counterculture in Black and White
Armed and Dangerous”
Vertamae Grosvenor’s Revolutionary Recipes
Friendship in the Time of Cointelpro
Pass Fe White and Homestretch
Black Regions, Queer Territories”
The Unspeakable in Cornelius Eady’s Brutal Imagination
Amiri Baraka's Humanist Theater
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |