Radical aesthetics and modern black nationalism

Resource Information

The work Radical aesthetics and modern black nationalism represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Radical aesthetics and modern black nationalism

Statement of responsibility

GerShun Avilez

Creator

• Avilez, GerShun, 1980-

Author

• Avilez, GerShun, 1980-

Subject

• African American arts -- 20th century
• African Americans -- Intellectual life
• African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
• American literature -- African American authors
• American literature -- African American authors | History and criticism
• Black Arts movement
• Black Arts movement
• Black arts movement
• Black nationalism
• Black nationalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Film
• History
• Kunst
• Literatur
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government | General
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government | National
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies
• USA
• United States
• 1900-1999
• African American arts

Genre

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"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

Member of

• New Black studies series

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

320.54/60973

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E185.89.I56

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

The New Black Studies Series