The Racial Unfamiliar: Illegibility in Black Literature and Culture Brooks John
The Racial Unfamiliar: Illegibility in Black Literature and Culture Brooks John The works of African American authors and artists are too often interpreted through the lens of authenticity. Their art…
Specifikacia The Racial Unfamiliar: Illegibility in Black Literature and Culture Brooks John
The Racial Unfamiliar: Illegibility in Black Literature and Culture Brooks John
The works of African American authors and artists are too often interpreted through the lens of authenticity. Their art resists interpretation in terms of conventional racial discourse; instead, they embrace opacity, uncertainty, and illegibility.John Brooks examines a range of abstractionist, experimental, and genre-defying works by Black writers and artists that challenge how audiences perceive and imagine race. They are scrutinized for "positive" or "negative" representations of Black people and Black culture or are assumed to communicate some truth about Black identity or the "Black experience." However, many contemporary Black artists are creating works that cannot be slotted into such categories.
He argues that literature and visual art that exceed the confines of familiar conceptions of Black identity can upend received ideas about race and difference.