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Bad Men - Creative Touchstones of Black Writers (Paperback)
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Bad Men - Creative Touchstones of Black Writers (Paperback)
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How have African American writers drawn on bad men and black boys
as creative touchstones for their evocative and vibrant art? This
is the question posed by Howard Rambsy's new book, which explores
bad men as a central, recurring, and understudied figure in African
American literature, and music. By focusing on how various
iterations of the black bad man figure serve as creative muse and
inspiration for literary production, Rambsy puts a wide variety of
contemporary African American literary and cultural works in
conversation with creativity research for the first time. Employing
concepts such as playfulness, productivity, divergent thinking, and
problem finding, Rambsy examines the works of a wide range of
writers-including Elizabeth Alexander, Amiri Baraka, Paul Beatty,
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tyehimba Jess, Trymaine Lee, Adrian Matejka,
Aaron McGruder, Evie Shockley, and Kevin Young-who have drawn on
notions of bad black men and boys to create innovative and
challenging works in a variety of genres. Through groundbreaking
readings, Rambsy demonstrates the fruitfulness of viewing black
literary art through the lens of the field of creativity research.
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