9780813940328-081394032X-Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life

Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life

ISBN-13: 9780813940328
ISBN-10: 081394032X
Author: Christopher Freeburg
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Format: Paperback 172 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780813940328
ISBN-10: 081394032X
Author: Christopher Freeburg
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Format: Paperback 172 pages

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Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life (ISBN-13: 9780813940328 and ISBN-10: 081394032X), written by authors Christopher Freeburg, was published by University of Virginia Press in 2017. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Christopher Freeburg’s Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life offers a crucial new reading of a neglected aspect of African American literature and art across the long twentieth century. Rejecting the idea that the most dehumanizing of black experiences, such as lynching or other racial violence, have completely robbed victims of their personhood, Freeburg rethinks what it means to be a person in the works of black artists. This book advances the idea that individual persons always retain the ability to withhold, express, or change their ideas, and this concept has profound implications for long-held assumptions about the relationship between black interior life and black collective political interests.

Examining an array of seminal black texts―from Ida B. Wells’s antilynching pamphlets to works by Richard Wright, Nina Simone, and Toni Morrison―Freeburg demonstrates that the personhood represented by these writers unsettles rather than automatically strengthens black subjects’ relationships to political movements such as racial uplift, civil rights, and black nationalism. He shows how black artists illuminate the challenges of racial collectivity while stressing the vital stakes of individual personhood. In his challenge to current African Americanist criticism, Freeburg makes a striking contribution to our understanding of African American literature and culture.

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