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Radical aesthetics and modern Black nationalism

Avilez, GerShun, 1980- author

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\"This project links the engagement of Black nationalist activism to artistic experimentation in recent African American literature, visual art, and film. GerShun Avilez argues that the ideology of modern Black nationalism functions as a dominant means for artistic and theoretical experimentation in African-American literary and visual artwork in the late twentieth century and into the twenty-first. The project provides a new genealogy of contemporary African American artistic production while also shedding new light on the Black Arts Movement (1965-1975) and placing emphasis on how questions of gender and sexuality guide the artistic experimentation discussed throughout the work. More specifically, Avilez unravels how the artistic production of the Black Arts era provides a set of critical methodologies and paradigms rooted in the disidentification with Black nationalist discourses, which gives rise to a subjectivity Avilez refers to as aesthetic radicalism. This term describes the engaged critique of nationalist rhetoric that appears prominently during the 1960s and that continues to offer novel means for expressing Black intimacy and embodiment and producing experimental works of art and innovate artistic methods.--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Subject: African Americans Intellectual life 20th century. / Black nationalism United States History 20th century. / American literature African American authors History and criticism. / Black Arts movement. / African American arts 20th century.
• ISBN: 9780252040122, 9780252081613

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
E185.89.I56 A85 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE