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Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry

Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry

Shockley, Evie

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Poetry Criticism

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ISBN10: 1609380584
ISBN13: 9781609380588
Publisher: Univ Of Iowa Pr
Published: Oct 28 2011
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Beginning with a deceptively simple question--What do we mean when we designate behaviors, values, or forms of expression as black?--Evie Shockley's Renegade Poetics separates what we think we know about black aesthetics from the more complex and nuanced possibilities the concept has long encompassed. The study reminds us, first, that even among the radicalized young poets and theorists who associated themselves with the Black Arts Movement that began in the mid-1960s, the contours of black aesthetics were deeply contested and, second, that debates about the relationship between aesthetics and politics for African American artists continue into the twenty-first century.

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