Bad Men: Creative Touchstones of Black Writers

How have African American writers drawn on "bad" black men and black boys as creative touchstones for...
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Author: Howard Rambsy II
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Language: English
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Bad Men: Creative Touchstones of Black Writers by Rambsy II, Howard

Bad Men: Creative Touchstones of Black Writers

€68,51

Bad Men: Creative Touchstones of Black Writers

€68,51
Author: Howard Rambsy II
Format: Paperback
Language: English

How have African American writers drawn on "bad" black men and black boys as creative touchstones for their evocative and vibrant art? This is the question posed by Howard Rambsy's new book, which explores bad men as a central, recurring, and understudied figure in African American literature, and music. By focusing on how various iterations of the bad black man figure serve as creative muse and inspiration for literary production, Rambsy puts a wide variety of contemporary African American literary and cultural works in conversation with creativity research for the first time.

Employing concepts such as playfulness, productivity, divergent thinking, and problem finding, Rambsy examines the works of a wide range of writers--including Elizabeth Alexander, Amiri Baraka, Paul Beatty, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tyehimba Jess, Trymaine Lee, Adrian Matejka, Aaron McGruder, Evie Shockley, and Kevin Young--who have drawn on notions of bad black men and boys to create innovative and challenging works in a variety of genres. Through groundbreaking readings, Rambsy demonstrates the fruitfulness of viewing black literary art through the lens of creativity research.



Author: Howard Rambsy II
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 04/01/2020
Pages: 238
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9780813944135

About the Author

Howard Rambsy II is Professor of English at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and author of The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry.


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