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Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects

Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects

Lamothe, Daphne

Hardcover

Art HistoryLiterary CriticismBlack American Studies

ISBN10: 1469675307
ISBN13: 9781469675305
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jan 9 2024
Pages: 202
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The decades following the civil rights and decolonization movements of the sixties and seventies--termed the post-soul era--created new ways to understand the aesthetics of global racial representation. Daphne Lamothe shows that beginning around 1980 and continuing to the present day, Black literature, art, and music resisted the pull of singular and universal notions of racial identity. Developing the idea of Black aesthetic time--a multipronged theoretical concept that analyzes the ways race and time collide in the process of cultural production--she assesses Black fiction, poetry, and visual and musical texts by Paule Marshall, Zadie Smith, Tracy K. Smith, Dionne Brand, Toyin Ojih Odutola, and Stromae, among others. Lamothe asks how our understanding of Blackness might expand upon viewing racial representation without borders--or, to use her concept, from the permeable, supple place of Black aesthetic time.

Lamothe purposefully focuses on texts told from the vantage point of immigrants, migrants, and city dwellers to conceptualize Blackness as a global phenomenon without assuming the universality or homogeneity of racialized experience. In this new way to analyze Black global art, Lamothe foregrounds migratory subjects poised on thresholds between not only old and new worlds, but old and new selves.

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