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  1. The racial unfamiliar
    illegibility in Black literature and culture
    Author: Brooks, John
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    "Through what strategies might contemporary artists confront cultural assumptions about race? In what ways can the devices that make race feel familiar-such as stereotypes or strategic essentialism-be used to make race feel unfamiliar? What new... more

    Location:
    Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    "Through what strategies might contemporary artists confront cultural assumptions about race? In what ways can the devices that make race feel familiar-such as stereotypes or strategic essentialism-be used to make race feel unfamiliar? What new perspectives might emerge out of such disorienting confrontations? In The Racial Unfamiliar, John Brooks argues that twenty-first-century African American artists have turned to abstractionist aesthetics to complicate and illuminate how we think and see race. Brooks shows that established categories of cultural production-such as "African American art" or "Black history"-reproduce familiar but confining ideas about race, and that some audiences assume such ideas reflect a "truth" about Black identity or Black experience in the United States. Instead of countering representations of race with "authentic" portrayals of African American identity and experience, recent artists have begun exaggerating and overemphasizing them. By inflating and abstracting clichéd representations and stereotypes, these artists expose the incongruities that underlie racist attitudes and refute the idea that any single African American experience exists to be represented. Through the production of illegible misrepresentations of a multitude of black experiences, the literary and visual works considered in this book insist that blackness exceeds categorical representation. Brooks traces the disorienting effects of this experimental aesthetic through a broad array of recent artworks, from novels and plays by Percival Everett and Suzan-Lori Parks to photography by Roy DeCarava and installation art by Kara Walker, to show how contemporary African American cultural production can be understood as an operation in abstracting and upending the cultural determinants that make racial Blackness intelligible"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780231205023; 9780231205030
    RVK Categories: LO 94000
    Series: Literature now
    Subjects: American literature; African American art; African Americans; Race in literature; Race in art; African Americans in literature; African Americans in art; African Americans; Literary criticism
    Scope: xi, 287 Seiten, Illustrationen
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index
  2. The racial unfamiliar
    illegibility in Black literature and culture
    Author: Brooks, John
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    Location:
    Universität Marburg, Universitätsbibliothek
    Signature:
    001 HU 1728 B873
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780231205023; 9780231205030
    RVK Categories: HU 1728 ; LO 94000
    Series: Literature now
    Subjects: Literatur; Kunst; Schwarze; Ästhetik; Abstraktion
    Scope: xi, 287 Seiten, Illustrationen
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index.
  3. The racial unfamiliar
    illegibility in Black literature and culture
    Author: Brooks, John
    Published: [2022]; © 2022
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    "Through what strategies might contemporary artists confront cultural assumptions about race? In what ways can the devices that make race feel familiar-such as stereotypes or strategic essentialism-be used to make race feel unfamiliar? What new... more

    Location:
    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

    Location:
    Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    "Through what strategies might contemporary artists confront cultural assumptions about race? In what ways can the devices that make race feel familiar-such as stereotypes or strategic essentialism-be used to make race feel unfamiliar? What new perspectives might emerge out of such disorienting confrontations? In The Racial Unfamiliar, John Brooks argues that twenty-first-century African American artists have turned to abstractionist aesthetics to complicate and illuminate how we think and see race. Brooks shows that established categories of cultural production-such as "African American art" or "Black history"-reproduce familiar but confining ideas about race, and that some audiences assume such ideas reflect a "truth" about Black identity or Black experience in the United States. Instead of countering representations of race with "authentic" portrayals of African American identity and experience, recent artists have begun exaggerating and overemphasizing them. By inflating and abstracting clichéd representations and stereotypes, these artists expose the incongruities that underlie racist attitudes and refute the idea that any single African American experience exists to be represented. Through the production of illegible misrepresentations of a multitude of black experiences, the literary and visual works considered in this book insist that blackness exceeds categorical representation. Brooks traces the disorienting effects of this experimental aesthetic through a broad array of recent artworks, from novels and plays by Percival Everett and Suzan-Lori Parks to photography by Roy DeCarava and installation art by Kara Walker, to show how contemporary African American cultural production can be understood as an operation in abstracting and upending the cultural determinants that make racial Blackness intelligible"--

     
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  4. The racial unfamiliar
    illegibility in Black literature and culture
    Author: Brooks, John
    Published: [2022]; © 2022
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    "Through what strategies might contemporary artists confront cultural assumptions about race? In what ways can the devices that make race feel familiar-such as stereotypes or strategic essentialism-be used to make race feel unfamiliar? What new... more

    Location:
    Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Bibliothek
    Inter-library loan:
    No loan of volumes, only paper copies will be sent

    Location:
    Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg
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    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

    Location:
    Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg
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    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    "Through what strategies might contemporary artists confront cultural assumptions about race? In what ways can the devices that make race feel familiar-such as stereotypes or strategic essentialism-be used to make race feel unfamiliar? What new perspectives might emerge out of such disorienting confrontations? In The Racial Unfamiliar, John Brooks argues that twenty-first-century African American artists have turned to abstractionist aesthetics to complicate and illuminate how we think and see race. Brooks shows that established categories of cultural production-such as "African American art" or "Black history"-reproduce familiar but confining ideas about race, and that some audiences assume such ideas reflect a "truth" about Black identity or Black experience in the United States. Instead of countering representations of race with "authentic" portrayals of African American identity and experience, recent artists have begun exaggerating and overemphasizing them. By inflating and abstracting clichéd representations and stereotypes, these artists expose the incongruities that underlie racist attitudes and refute the idea that any single African American experience exists to be represented. Through the production of illegible misrepresentations of a multitude of black experiences, the literary and visual works considered in this book insist that blackness exceeds categorical representation. Brooks traces the disorienting effects of this experimental aesthetic through a broad array of recent artworks, from novels and plays by Percival Everett and Suzan-Lori Parks to photography by Roy DeCarava and installation art by Kara Walker, to show how contemporary African American cultural production can be understood as an operation in abstracting and upending the cultural determinants that make racial Blackness intelligible"--

     
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  5. The racial unfamiliar
    illegibility in Black literature and culture
    Author: Brooks, John
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    "Through what strategies might contemporary artists confront cultural assumptions about race? In what ways can the devices that make race feel familiar-such as stereotypes or strategic essentialism-be used to make race feel unfamiliar? What new... more

    Location:
    Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek
    Signature:
    ::8:2022:4463:
    Inter-library loan:
    No inter-library loan

    Location:
    Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

    Location:
    Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim
    Signature:
    500 HU 1728 B873
    Inter-library loan:
    No inter-library loan

     

    "Through what strategies might contemporary artists confront cultural assumptions about race? In what ways can the devices that make race feel familiar-such as stereotypes or strategic essentialism-be used to make race feel unfamiliar? What new perspectives might emerge out of such disorienting confrontations? In The Racial Unfamiliar, John Brooks argues that twenty-first-century African American artists have turned to abstractionist aesthetics to complicate and illuminate how we think and see race. Brooks shows that established categories of cultural production-such as "African American art" or "Black history"-reproduce familiar but confining ideas about race, and that some audiences assume such ideas reflect a "truth" about Black identity or Black experience in the United States. Instead of countering representations of race with "authentic" portrayals of African American identity and experience, recent artists have begun exaggerating and overemphasizing them. By inflating and abstracting clichéd representations and stereotypes, these artists expose the incongruities that underlie racist attitudes and refute the idea that any single African American experience exists to be represented. Through the production of illegible misrepresentations of a multitude of black experiences, the literary and visual works considered in this book insist that blackness exceeds categorical representation. Brooks traces the disorienting effects of this experimental aesthetic through a broad array of recent artworks, from novels and plays by Percival Everett and Suzan-Lori Parks to photography by Roy DeCarava and installation art by Kara Walker, to show how contemporary African American cultural production can be understood as an operation in abstracting and upending the cultural determinants that make racial Blackness intelligible"--

     
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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780231205023; 9780231205030
    RVK Categories: LO 94000 ; HU 1728
    Series: Literature now
    Subjects: American literature; African American art; African Americans; Race in literature; Race in art; African Americans in literature; African Americans in art; African Americans; Literary criticism
    Scope: xi, 287 Seiten, Illustrationen
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index