Christopher Freeburg's Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life
offers a crucial new reading of a neglected aspect of African
American literature and art across the long twentieth century.
Rejecting the idea that the most dehumanizing of black experiences,
such as lynching or other racial violence, have completely robbed
victims of their personhood, Freeburg rethinks what it means to be
a person in the works of black artists. This book advances the idea
that individual persons always retain the ability to withhold,
express, or change their ideas, and this concept has profound
implications for long-held assumptions about the relationship
between black interior life and black collective political
interests. Examining an array of seminal black texts-from Ida B.
Wells's antilynching pamphlets to works by Richard Wright, Nina
Simone, and Toni Morrison-Freeburg demonstrates that the personhood
represented by these writers unsettles rather than automatically
strengthens black subjects' relationships to political movements
such as racial uplift, civil rights, and black nationalism. He
shows how black artists illuminate the challenges of racial
collectivity while stressing the vital stakes of individual
personhood. In his challenge to current African Americanist
criticism, Freeburg makes a striking contribution to our
understanding of African American literature and culture.
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