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Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism GerShun Avilez
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Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism
GerShun Avilez
Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism 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. GerShun Avilez 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 Avilez 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. Avilez's close readings study 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, Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism rewrites recent black cultural production even as it uncovers unexpected ways of locating black radicalism.
224 pages, 8 black and white photographs
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | March 30, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9780252081613 |
| Publishers | University of Illinois Press |
| Pages | 232 |
| Dimensions | 275 × 153 × 19 mm · 342 g |
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