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AMERICAN POETRY --- AMERICAN LITERATURE --- AFRO-AMERICAN AUTHORS --- HISTORY AND CRITICISM

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"From the National-Book-Award-winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory reckoning with the myth and the truth behind an American everyone knows and few really understand. Harriet Tubman is, if surveys are to be trusted, one of the ten most famous Americans ever born, and soon to be the face of the twenty-dollar bill. Yet often she's a figure more out of myth than history, almost a comic-book superhero-the woman who, despite being barely five-feet tall, illiterate, and suffering from a brain injury, managed to escape from her own enslavement, return again and again to lead others North to freedom, speak out powerfully against slavery, and then become the first American woman in history to lead a military raid, freeing some 750 people without loss of life. You could almost say she's America's Robin Hood, a miraculous vision, often rightly celebrated but seldom understood. Tiya Miles's extraordinary Night Flyer changes all that. With her characteristic tenderness and imaginative genius, Miles explores beyond the stock historical grid to weave Tubman's life into the fabric of her world. She probes the ecological reality of Tubman's surroundings and examines her kinship with other enslaved women who similarly passed through a spiritual wilderness and recorded those travels in profound and moving memoirs. What emerges, uncannily, is a human being whose mysticism becomes the more palpable the more we understand it-a story that offers us powerful inspiration for our own time of troubles. Harriet Tubman traversed many boundaries, inner and outer. Now, thanks to Tiya Miles, she becomes an even clearer and sharper signal from the past, one that can help us to echolocate a more just and sustainable path"--

Enslaved persons --- African American women --- African Americans --- Fugitive slaves --- Underground Railroad. --- History --- Tubman, Harriet,

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"Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke's influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imagination"--

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Curated by renowned London-based curator, Mark Sealy MBE, the FotoFest Biennial 2020, 'African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other' brings together over 30 artists from around the globe whose works challenge traditional notions of Blackness and transnational histories in relation to concepts of liberty, rights, and representation. Taking its cues from John Coltrane's avant-garde jazz oeuvre, wherein formal modernisms of the past are made complex by radical imagination and black-futurity, this presentation of diverse ideas, artistic approaches, and material histories proposes a cosmological exploration of Africa and the contemporary African diaspora; one that defies easy categorization and spatial and temporal boundaries. In their unique practices, the featured artists turn an eye to social, cultural, and political conditions that inform and influence concepts of representation as they pertain to image production and circulation in Africa and beyond. These artists question the ways in which subjectivity is constructed and deconstructed by the camera, and in the process, reveal legacies of resistance by those who defy traditional ideas of sexual, racial, gender-based, and other marginalized identities.Produced in conjunction with the FotoFest Biennial 2020 exhibition, the 'African Cosmologies' book will feature essays by leading scholars in the fields of contemporary art, photography, and cultural studies. Images of installations, photography, film, and video works by artists will highlight the range of interdisciplinary approaches that are represented in the Biennial exhibition.

Photography, Artistic --- Art, Modern --- fotografie --- portretfotografie --- landschapsfotografie --- documentaire fotografie --- Afrika --- kolonialisme --- postkolonialisme --- Abdu'Allah Faisal --- Akinbiyi Akinbode --- Amouzou Hélène A --- Baloji Sammy --- Barnor James --- Boudjelal Bruno --- Chagas Edson --- Cole Ernest --- Cyrus Jamal --- Depara Jean --- El-Tantawy Laura --- Fosso Samuel --- Gambo Rahima --- Gyamfi Eric --- Harris Lyle Ashton --- Kambalu Samson --- Fani-Kayode Rotimi --- de Miranda Monica --- Mofokeng Santu --- Msezane Sethembile --- Muholi Zanele --- Muluneh Aïda --- Neves Eustaquio --- Ouedraogo Nyaba L --- Paulino Rosana --- Petros Dawit L --- Saro-Wiwa Zina --- Silvestri Aida --- Sobekwa Linokuhle --- Ukpong Wilfred --- Weems Carrie Mae --- leo --- Baile Shobun --- 77.041 --- Exhibitions