TY - BOOK ID - 70067882 TI - Radical aesthetics and modern black nationalism PY - 2016 SN - 9780252081613 9780252040122 9780252098321 0252098323 0252040120 0252081617 PB - Urbana DB - UniCat KW - African Americans KW - Black nationalism KW - American literature KW - Black Arts movement KW - African American arts KW - Noirs américains KW - Nationalisme noir KW - Littérature américaine KW - Arts noirs américains KW - Intellectual life KW - History KW - African American authors KW - History and criticism KW - Vie intellectuelle KW - Histoire KW - Auteurs noirs américains KW - Critique et interprétation. KW - Black Arts movement. KW - Afro-American arts KW - Arts, African American KW - Negro arts KW - Ethnic arts KW - 20th century. KW - History and criticism. KW - Noirs américains KW - Littérature américaine KW - Arts noirs américains KW - Auteurs noirs américains KW - Critique et interprétation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:70067882 AB - "This project links the engagement of Black nationalist activism to artistic experimentation in recent African American literature, visual art, and film. GerShun Avilez argues that the ideology of modern Black nationalism functions as a dominant means for artistic and theoretical experimentation in African-American literary and visual artwork in the late twentieth century and into the twenty-first. The project provides a new genealogy of contemporary African American artistic production while also shedding new light on the Black Arts Movement (1965-1975) and placing emphasis on how questions of gender and sexuality guide the artistic experimentation discussed throughout the work. More specifically, Avilez unravels how the artistic production of the Black Arts era provides a set of critical methodologies and paradigms rooted in the disidentification with Black nationalist discourses, which gives rise to a subjectivity Avilez refers to as aesthetic radicalism. This term describes the engaged critique of nationalist rhetoric that appears prominently during the 1960s and that continues to offer novel means for expressing Black intimacy and embodiment and producing experimental works of art and innovate artistic methods.--Provided by publisher. ER -