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Freedom Time - The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,146
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Freedom Time - The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing (Hardcover): anthony reed

Freedom Time - The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing (Hardcover)

anthony reed

Series: The Callaloo African Diaspora Series

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Standard literary criticism tends to either ignore or downplay the unorthodox tradition of black experimental writing that emerged in the wake of protests against colonization and Jim Crow-era segregation. Histories of African American literature likewise have a hard time accounting for the distinctiveness of experimental writing, which is part of a general shift in emphasis among black writers away from appeals for social recognition or raising consciousness. In "Freedom Time"--the second book to appear in the "Callaloo" African Diaspora Series--Anthony Reed offers a theoretical reading of "black experimental writing" that understands the term both as a profound literary development and as a concept with which to analyze the ways that writing challenges us to rethink the relationships between race and literary techniques.

Through extended analyses of works by African American and Afro-Caribbean writers--including N. H. Pritchard, Suzan-Lori Parks, NourbeSe Philip, Kamau Brathwaite, Claudia Rankine, Douglas Kearney, Harryette Mullen, and Nathaniel Mackey--Reed develops a new sense of the literary politics of formally innovative writing and the connections between literature and politics since the 1960s.

"Freedom Time" reclaims the power of experimental black voices by arguing that, if literature fundamentally serves the human need for freedom in expression, then readers and critics must see it as more than a mere reflection of the politics of social protest and identity formation. With an approach informed by literary, cultural, African American, and feminist studies, Reed shows how reworking literary materials and conventions liberates writers to push the limits of representation and expression.

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Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: The Callaloo African Diaspora Series
Release date: 2015
First published: 2014
Authors: anthony reed (Associate Professor of English)
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-1520-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies
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LSN: 1-4214-1520-8
Barcode: 9781421415208

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