Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism

by GerShun Avilez

Book Overview

Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism explores the long-overlooked links between black nationalist activism and the renaissance of artistic experimentation emerging from recent African American literature, visual art, and film. GerShun Avilez charts a new genealogy of contemporary African American artistic production that illuminates how questions of gender and sexuality guided artistic experimentation in the Black Arts Movement from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252081617
• ISBN13: 9780252081613
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"