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Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects
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The decades following the civil rights and decolonization movements
of the sixties and seventies—termed the post-soul era—created
new ways to understand the aesthetics of global racial
representation. Daphne Lamothe shows that beginning around 1980 and
continuing to the present day, Black literature, art, and music
resisted the pull of singular and universal notions of racial
identity. Developing the idea of "Black aesthetic time"—a
multipronged theoretical concept that analyzes the ways race and
time collide in the process of cultural production—she assesses
Black fiction, poetry, and visual and musical texts by Paule
Marshall, Zadie Smith, Tracy K. Smith, Dionne Brand, Toyin Ojih
Odutola, and Stromae, among others. Lamothe asks how our
understanding of Blackness might expand upon viewing racial
representation without borders—or, to use her concept, from the
permeable, supple place of Black aesthetic time. Lamothe
purposefully focuses on texts told from the vantage point of
immigrants, migrants, and city dwellers to conceptualize Blackness
as a global phenomenon without assuming the universality or
homogeneity of racialized experience. In this new way to analyze
Black global art, Lamothe foregrounds migratory subjects poised on
thresholds between not only old and new worlds, but old and new
selves.
General
Imprint: |
The University of North Carolina Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 2023 |
Authors: |
Daphne Lamothe
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Dimensions: |
235 x 155mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
192 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4696-7530-5 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-4696-7530-7 |
Barcode: |
9781469675305 |
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