Brooks The Racial Unfamiliar

Illegibility in Black Literature and Culture
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-55580-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Literature Now

John Brooks examines a range of abstractionist, experimental, and genre-defying works by Black writers and artists that challenge how audiences perceive and imagine race. He argues that literature and visual art that exceed the confines of familiar conceptions of Black identity can upend received ideas about race and difference.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brooks, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Encountering Illegibility: The Enactment of Critical Blackness
Part I. Vision
1. Picturing Blackness in the Photography of Roy DeCarava
2. A Muse for Blackness: Kara Walker’s “Outlaw Rebel” Vision
Part II. Genre
3. Antiessentialist Form: The Bebop Effect of Percival Everett’s Erasure
4. Beyond Satire: The Humor of Incongruity in Paul Beatty’s The Sellout
Part III. History
5. The Politics of Inertia: Temporal Distortion in Suzan-Lori Parks’s 100 Plays for the First Hundred Days
6. Heretical Poetics in Robin Coste Lewis’s The Voyage of the Sable Venus
Afterword: Critical Blackness in Contexts
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

John Brooks is a visiting assistant professor of English at Boston College.