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Signaling such recent activist and aesthetic concepts in the work
of Kara Walker, Childish Gambino, BLM, Janelle Monáe, and Kendrick
Lamar, and marking the exit of the Obama Administration and the
opening of the National Museum of African American History and
Culture, this anthology explores the role of African American arts
in shaping the future, and further informing new directions we
might take in honoring and protecting the success of African
Americans in the U.S. The essays in African American Arts:
Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity engage readers in critical
conversations by activists, scholars, and artists reflecting on
national and transnational legacies of African American activism as
an element of artistic practice, particularly as they concern
artistic expression and race relations, and the intersections of
creative processes with economic, sociological, and psychological
inequalities. Scholars from the fields of communication, theater,
queer studies, media studies, performance studies, dance, visual
arts, and fashion design, to name a few, collectively ask: What are
the connections between African American arts, the work of social
justice, and creative processes? If we conceive the arts as
critical to the legacy of Black activism in the United States, how
can we use that construct to inform our understanding of the
complicated intersections of African American activism and
aesthetics? How might we as scholars and creative thinkers further
employ the arts to envision and shape a verdant society?
Contributors: Carrie Mae Weems, Carmen Gillespie, Rikki Byrd, Amber
Lauren Johnson, Doria E. Charlson, Florencia V. Cornet, Daniel
McNeil, Lucy Caplan, Genevieve Hyacinthe, Sammantha McCalla,
Nettrice R. Gaskins, Abby Dobson, J. Michael Kinsey, Shondrika
Moss-Bouldin, Julie B. Johnson, Sharrell D. Luckett, Jasmine Eileen
Coles, Tawnya Pettiford-Wates, Rickerby Hinds. Published by
Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers
University Press.Â
Toni Morrison, the only living American Nobel laureate in
literature, published her first novel in 1970. In the ensuing forty
plus years, Morrison's work has become synonymous with the most
significant literary art and intellectual engagements of our time.
The publication of Home (May 2012), as well as her 2011 play
Desdemona affirm the range and acuity of Morrison's imagination.
Toni Morrison: Forty Years in The Clearing enables
audiences/readers, critics, and students to review Morrison's
cultural and literary impacts and to consider the import, and
influence of her legacies in her multiple roles as writer, editor,
publisher, reader, scholar, artist, and teacher over the last four
decades. Some of the highlights of the collection include
contributions from many of the major scholars of Morrison's canon:
as well as art pieces, music, photographs and commentary from
poets, Nikki Giovanni and Sonia Sanchez; novelist, A.J. Verdelle;
playwright, Lydia Diamond; composer, Richard Danielpour;
photographer, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders; the first published
interview with Morrison's friends from Howard University, Florence
Ladd and Mary Wilburn; and commentary from President Barack Obama.
What distinguishes this book from the many other publications that
engage Morrison's work is that the collection is not exclusively a
work of critical interpretation or reference. This is the first
publication to contextualize and to consider the interdisciplinary,
artistic, and intellectual impacts of Toni Morrison using the
formal fluidity and dynamism that characterize her work. This book
adopts Morrison's metaphor as articulated in her Pulitzer-Prize
winning novel, Beloved. The narrative describes the clearing as "a
wide-open place cut deep in the woods nobody knew for what. . . .
In the heat of every Saturday afternoon, she sat in the clearing
while the people waited among the trees." Morrison's Clearing is a
complicated and dynamic space. Like the intricacies of Morrison's
intellectual and artistic voyages, the Clearing is both verdant and
deadly, a sanctuary and a prison. Morrison's vision invites
consideration of these complexities and confronts these most basic
human conundrums with courage, resolve and grace. This collection
attempts to reproduce the character and spirit of this metaphorical
terrain.
Toni Morrison, the only living American Nobel laureate in
literature, published her first novel in 1970. In the ensuing forty
plus years, Morrison's work has become synonymous with the most
significant literary art and intellectual engagements of our time.
The publication of Home (May 2012), as well as her 2011 play
Desdemona affirm the range and acuity of Morrison's imagination.
Toni Morrison: Forty Years in The Clearing enables
audiences/readers, critics, and students to review Morrison's
cultural and literary impacts and to consider the import, and
influence of her legacies in her multiple roles as writer, editor,
publisher, reader, scholar, artist, and teacher over the last four
decades. Some of the highlights of the collection include
contributions from many of the major scholars of Morrison's canon:
as well as art pieces, music, photographs and commentary from
poets, Nikki Giovanni and Sonia Sanchez; novelist, A.J. Verdelle;
playwright, Lydia Diamond; composer, Richard Danielpour;
photographer, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders; the first published
interview with Morrison's friends from Howard University, Florence
Ladd and Mary Wilburn; and commentary from President Barack Obama.
What distinguishes this book from the many other publications that
engage Morrison's work is that the collection is not exclusively a
work of critical interpretation or reference. This is the first
publication to contextualize and to consider the interdisciplinary,
artistic, and intellectual impacts of Toni Morrison using the
formal fluidity and dynamism that characterize her work. This book
adopts Morrison's metaphor as articulated in her Pulitzer-Prize
winning novel, Beloved. The narrative describes the clearing as "a
wide-open place cut deep in the woods nobody knew for what. . . .
In the heat of every Saturday afternoon, she sat in the clearing
while the people waited among the trees." Morrison's Clearing is a
complicated and dynamic space. Like the intricacies of Morrison's
intellectual and artistic voyages, the Clearing is both verdant and
deadly, a sanctuary and a prison. Morrison's vision invites
consideration of these complexities and confronts these most basic
human conundrums with courage, resolve and grace. This collection
attempts to reproduce the character and spirit of this metaphorical
terrain.
Alice Walker is one of the few living writers whose work regularly
appears in the high school curriculum. While she is known primarily
for her best-selling novel and masterpiece The Color Purple, many
of her other novels, essays, and poems are favorites of both
students and teachers alike. In 1983 she became the first
African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Critical Companion to Alice Walker is a one-stop resource for
anyone interested in this prolific author's life, works, and
achievements.
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