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In 1934, Nancy Cunard published Negro: An Anthology, which brought together more than two hundred contributions, serving as a plea for racial justice, an exposé of black oppression, and a hymn to black achievement and endurance. The anthology stands as a virtual ethnography of 1930s racial, historic, artistic, political, and economic culture. Samuel Beckett, a close friend of the flamboyant and unconventional Cunard, translated nineteen of the contributions for Negro, constituting Beckett's largest single prose publication. Beckett traditionally has been viewed as an apolitical postmodernist

African American arts. --- Arts, Black. --- Blacks. --- Afro-American arts --- Arts, African American --- Negro arts --- Ethnic arts --- Black arts --- Negroes --- Ethnology --- Africa --- Civilization. --- Black persons --- Blacks --- Black people.

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This work documents & analyzes Hoyt Fuller's profound influence on the Black Arts movement. Using historical snapshots of Fuller's life & activism as a means to rethink the period, 'Building the Black Arts Movement' provides a fresh take on the general trajectory of African American literary, & cultural, studies as the field developed over the course of two explosive decades in the mid-twentieth century. The text argues that the Black Arts movement can be understood as a pivotal & volatile moment in the long history of America's culture wars.

Black Arts movement. --- Black nationalism --- African American arts --- African Americans --- Afro-American arts --- Arts, African American --- Negro arts --- Ethnic arts --- History --- Intellectual life --- Fuller, Hoyt, --- Fuller, H. W.,

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The years between the collapse of Reconstruction and the end of World War I mark a pivotal moment in African American cultural production. Christened the "Post-Bellum-Pre-Harlem" era by the novelist Charles Chesnutt, these years look back to the antislavery movement and forward to the artistic flowering and racial self-consciousness of the Harlem Renaissance. Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem offers fresh perspectives on the literary and cultural achievements of African American men and women during this critically neglected, though vitally important, period of our nation's past. Using a wide range of d

African American arts --- African American arts. --- Kultur. --- Literatur. --- Schwarze. --- 1800-1999. --- Geschichte 1877-1919. --- USA. --- Afro-American arts --- Arts, African American --- Negro arts --- Ethnic arts --- History --- 20th century --- 19th century

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An artistic discussion on the critical potential of African American expressive cultureIn a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the “proper” depiction of black people. He advocates for African American aesthetic abstractionism—a representational mode whereby an artwork, rather than striving for realist verisimilitude, vigorously asserts its essentially artificial character. Maintaining that realist representation reaffirms the very social facts that it might have been understood to challenge, Harper contends that abstractionism shows up the actual constructedness of those facts, thereby subjecting them to critical scrutiny and making them amenable to transformation.Arguing against the need for “positive” representations, Abstractionist Aesthetics displaces realism as the primary mode of African American representational aesthetics, re-centers literature as a principal site of African American cultural politics, and elevates experimental prose within the domain of African American literature. Drawing on examples across a variety of artistic production, including the visual work of Fred Wilson and Kara Walker, the music of Billie Holiday and Cecil Taylor, and the prose and verse writings of Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, and John Keene, this book poses urgent questions about how racial blackness is made to assume certain social meanings. In the process, African American aesthetics are upended, rendering abstractionism as the most powerful modality for Black representation.

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A disproportionate number of male writers, including such figures as Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, Maulana Karenga, and Haki Madhubuti, continue to be credited for constructing the iconic and ideological foundations for what would be perpetuated as the Black Art Movement. Though there has arisen an increasing amount of scholarship that recognizes leading women artists, activists, and leaders of this period, these new perspectives have yet to recognize adequately the ways women aspired to far more than a mere dismantling of male-oriented ideals. In Visionary Women Writers of Chic

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