Black Interior Essays

Name: Black Interior Essays
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ISBN: 9781555973933

ISBN-10: 1555973930

ISBN-13: 9781555973933

Edition: 2004

Authors: Elizabeth Alexander

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With a poet's precision and an intellectually adventurous spirit, Elizabeth Alexander explores a wide spectrum of contemporary African American artistic life through literature, paintings, popular media, and films, and discusses its place in current culture. In The Black Interior, she examines the vital roles of such heavyweight literary figures as Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, and Rita Dove, as well as lesser known, yet vibrant, new creative voices. She offers a reconsideration of "afro-outreacute;" painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, the concept of "race-pride" in Jet magazine, and her take on Denzel Washington's career as a complex black male icon in a post-affirmative action era. Also…

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List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Publication date: 1/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.572



Preface


Toward the Black Interior


The Black Poet as Canon-Maker: Langston Hughes and the Road to New Negro Poets: USA


Meditations on "Mecca": Gwendolyn Brooks and the Responsibilities of the Black Poet


"I am; I'm a black man;/I am:": Michael Harper's "Black Aesthetic"


The World According to Jet, Or, Notes toward a Notion of Race-Pride


Anna Julia Cooper: Turn-of-the-Century "Aframerican" Intellectual


A Black Man Says "Sorbet"


Denzel


"Can You Be BLACK and Look at This?": Reading the Rodney King Video(s)