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Author Crawford, Margo Natalie, 1969- author.

Title Black post-blackness : the Black Arts Movement and twenty-first-century aesthetics / Margo Natalie Crawford
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource
Series New Black Studies Series
New Black studies series.
Contents Introduction -- The aesthetics of anticipation -- The politics of abstraction -- The counter-literacy of black mixed media -- The local and the global : BLKARTSOUTH and Callaloo -- The satire of black post-blackness -- Black inside/out : public interiority and black aesthetics -- Who's afraid of the black fantastic? The substance of surface -- Epilogue : Feeling black post-black
Summary "A 2008 cover of The New Yorker featured a much-discussed Black Power parody of Michelle and Barack Obama. The image put a spotlight on how easy it is to flatten the Black Power movement as we imagine new types of blackness. Margo Natalie Crawford argues that we have misread the Black Arts Movement's call for blackness. We have failed to see the movement's anticipation of the "new black" and "post-black." Black Post-Blackness compares the black avant-garde of the 1960s and 1970s Black Arts Movement with the most innovative spins of twenty-first century black aesthetics. Crawford zooms in on the 1970s second wave of the Black Arts Movement and shows the connections between this final wave of the Black Arts movement and the early years of twenty-first century black aesthetics. She uncovers the circle of black post-blackness that pivots on the power of anticipation, abstraction, mixed media, the global South, satire, public interiority, and the fantastic." -- Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-254) and index
Notes Description based on print version record
SUBJECT African-American literature and culture -- 21st century
Subject Black Arts movement -- 21st century
Black nationalism.
ART -- Performance.
ART -- Reference.
American literature -- African American authors.
Arts, Black.
Black Arts movement.
Black nationalism.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021302778
ISBN 9780252099557
0252099559