Renegade Poetics Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry

Name: Renegade Poetics Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry
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ISBN: 9781609380588

ISBN-10: 1609380584

ISBN-13: 9781609380588

Edition: 2011

Authors: Evie Shockley

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Beginning with a deceptively simple question—What do we mean when we designate behaviors, values, or forms of expression as “black”?—Evie Shockley’sRenegade Poeticsseparates 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. Shockley argues that…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Publication date: 10/28/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

EVIE SHOCKLEY is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University and the author of a half-red sea, the chapbook The Gorgon Goddess, and the forthcoming study Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry.