Millennial Style: The Politics of Experiment in Contemporary African Diasporic Culture

In Millennial Style, Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman looks at recent experiments in black expressive culture that begin in...
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Author: Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman
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Language: English
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Millennial Style: The Politics of Experiment in Contemporary African Diasporic Culture by Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah I.

Millennial Style: The Politics of Experiment in Contemporary African Diasporic Culture

BD$236.74

Millennial Style: The Politics of Experiment in Contemporary African Diasporic Culture

BD$236.74
Author: Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
In Millennial Style, Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman looks at recent experiments in black expressive culture that begin in the place of ruin. By ruin, Abdur-Rahman means the political terror and social abjection that constitute the ongoing peril of black lives. Whereas earlier black writers and artists have employed realist modes of expression to represent racial harm and to imaginatively remediate it, the black avant-garde of today displays more experimental methods. Abdur-Rahman outlines four widely employed modes in contemporary African diasporic cultural production: Black Grotesquerie, Hollowed Blackness, Black Cacophony, and the Black Ecstatic. Mobilizing black feminist and black radical thought, she considers work by such cultural practitioners as Wangechi Mutu, Marci Blackman, Alexandria Smith, Colson Whitehead, Toni Morrison, Harmony Holiday, and Essex Hemphill. Writerly and experimental, Millennial Style theorizes contemporary black art as the holding (or hoarding) of black mortal and material resources against the injuries of social death, as the fashioning of relational ethics, and as exuberant black world-building in ruinous times.

Author: Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 02/16/2024
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781478025955

About the Author
Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Brown University and the author of Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race, also published by Duke University Press.

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