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Subject(s)

• African diaspora in literature [Browse]
• African diaspora in art [Browse]
• American literature—African American authors—History and criticism [Browse]
• African American arts—21st century [Browse]
• Politics and culture—United States—History—21st century [Browse]
• Psychic trauma [Browse]
• Womanism [Browse]
• Queer theory [Browse]

Summary note

Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman examines how contemporary avant-garde black art and writing by Wangechi Mutu, Marci Blackman, Alexandria Smith, Colson Whitehead, Toni Morrison, Harmony Holiday, and Essex Hemphill use experimental methods to represent and imaginatively remediate racial harm.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

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Contents

• Black grotesquerie
• Hollowed Blackness
• Black cacophony
• The Black ecstatic.

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ISBN

1-4780-5919-2

Doi

• 10.1515/9781478059196

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