- University Press of Mississippi
- 2019
- Gebunden
- 230 Seiten
- ISBN 9781496824516
Post-Blackness. Post-Soul. Post-Black Art. New Blackness. How has the meaning of blackness changed in the twenty-first century? Cameron Leader-Picone suggests that this proliferation of terms, along with the renewed focus on questioning the relationship between individual black artists and the larger black community, indicates the arrival of novel forms of black identity and black art. Leader-Picone defines these terms as significant facets of a larger post era, linking them with the social and political context of Barack Obama's presidency. Analyzing claims of progress associated with Obama's election and post-era thinking, He examines the contours of black aesthetics in the new century. To do so, he sifts through post-era African American fiction, considering both celebrations
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