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In this reassessment of postmodernism, the author contends that the fragmentation considered to be characteristic of the postmodern age can in fact be traced to the status of marginalized American and Afro-American writers of the 1930s to 1950s, such as West, Nin, Barnes, Allison and Brooks.

Problèmes sociaux dans la littérature --- Social problems in literature --- Sociale problemen in de literatuur --- Sociology of literature --- American literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Literature and society --- Social problems in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- 20th century --- United States

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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.

African American arts --- Abstraction. --- African American aesthetics. --- Aesthetics, African American --- Afro-American aesthetics --- Aesthetics, American --- Abstract thought --- Cognition --- Logic --- Thought and thinking --- Afro-American arts --- Arts, African American --- Negro arts --- Ethnic arts --- Themes, motives.

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Iconography --- Art --- installations [visual works] --- photography [process] --- racial discrimination --- migration [function] --- feminism --- video art --- motion pictures [visual works] --- scripts [writing] --- eroticism --- kunstsociologie --- culturele diversiteit (kunst) --- African American --- men [male humans] --- Hendricks, Barkley L. --- Altman, Robert --- Coppola, Francis Ford --- Abugov, Jeff --- Arneson, Robert --- Barbado, Randy --- Bourne, St. Clair --- Bowser, Pearl --- Brest, Martin --- Burnett, Charles --- Carsey, Marcy --- Chomont, Tom --- Clark, Larry --- Clarke, Shirley --- Cox, Renée --- Crawford, Alonzo --- DeBeaux, Dawn Ader --- Devers, Claire --- Dickerson, Ernest R. --- Dr. Dre --- Everson, Kevin --- Finch, Nigel --- Friedkin, William --- Geller, Robert --- Gerima, Haile --- Glover, Bob --- Gralnik, Ron --- Gunn, Fiona --- Harris, Lyle Ashton --- Harris, Wendell B. --- Harvey, Anthony --- Hegner, Isabel --- Hewitt, Don --- Hooks, Kevin --- Hughes, Albert --- Hughes, Allen --- Jacobs, Jim --- James, Steve --- Johnson, David --- Kaplan, Vic --- Lane, Charles --- Livingston, Jennie --- Mazursky, Paul --- Miller, Peter --- Mose, Gilbert --- Mulcahy, Russell --- Murphy, Dudley --- Parks, Gordon --- Petrie, Daniel --- Pomerantz, Earl --- Pope, Carl --- Reichman, Thomas --- Reid, Tim --- Richards, Dick --- Riggs, Marion --- Roemer, Michael --- Santino, Jack --- Sayles, John --- Schlatter, George --- Schrader, Paul --- Schultz, Michael --- Singleton, John --- Swaffield, Jim --- Tavernier, Bertrand --- Tisdale, Danny --- Townsend, Robert --- Trammel, Donald --- Valadez, John --- Van Peeebles, Melvin --- Lee, Spike --- Wagner, aulP --- Walker, Christian --- Walker, Nancy --- Warner, Malcolm-Jamal --- Waters, Jack --- Weems, Carrie Mae --- Werner, Tom --- Williams, Marco --- Williams, Pat Ward --- Wilson, Hugh --- Woodberry, Billy --- Basquiat, Jean-Michel --- Mapplethorpe, Robert --- Rollins, Tim --- Chin, Mel --- Colescott, Robert --- Golub, Leon Albert --- Hammons, David --- Kim, Byron --- Ligon, Glenn --- Saar, Alison --- Serrano, Andres --- Simmons, Gary --- Wilson, Fred --- Simpson, Lorna --- Piper, Adrian --- Blackside --- C-SPAN [Washington, D.C.] --- Gay Men's Health Crisis [New Yotk, N.Y.] --- National Security Political Action Committee [Washington, D.C.] --- X-PRZ --- anno 1900-1999 --- United States of America