Prefiguring Postblackness is a very important and timely contribution to our field, which pushes our discussions in important new directions.”Venetria K. Patton, author of The Grasp That Reaches beyond the Grave: The Ancestral Call in Black Women’s Texts
| Title | : | Prefiguring Postblackness: Cultural Memory, Drama, and the African American Freedom Struggle of the 1960s |
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (468 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1496802985 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 224Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-5-30 |
| Language | : | English |
Prefiguring Postblackness is a very important and timely contribution to our field, which pushes our discussions in important new directions.”Venetria K. Patton, author of The Grasp That Reaches beyond the Grave: The Ancestral Call in Black Women’s Texts and Women in Chains: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women’s Fiction. Doing so, she tells us something new about both our current moment and the history that preceded it. “Prefiguring Postblackness is an original, thorough, and consequential monograph that will alter contemporary discussions of what scholars have dubbed a ‘postblack’ cultural moment following the civil rights era, in which a singular and coherent notion of black identity that unified the Freedom Struggles of the twentieth century gives way to a notion of blackness riven with internal differencesof gender, of class, of nationality, of sexuality, of age, of an endless list
Her work has appeared in MELUS and Black Arts Quarterly..Carol Bunch Davis, Galveston, Texas, is an assistant professor of English at Texas A&M University at Galveston
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