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Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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-outré" 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 available is Alexander's much heralded essay on Rodney King, Emmett Till, and the collective memory of racial violence.
Alexander, who has been a professor at the University of Chicago and Smith College, and recently at Yale University, has taught and lectured on African American art and culture across the country and abroad for nearly two decades. In The Black Interior, she directs her scrupulous poet's eye to the urgent cultural issues of the day. This lively collection is a crucial volume for understanding current thinking on race, art, and culture in America. Book News Annotation:The "black interior" is, for Alexander (English and African American
studies, Yale U.), "black life and creativity behind the public face
of stereotype and limited imagination" and a "metaphysical space
beyond the black public everyday toward power and wild imagination."
It is this concept that unites her eight essays exploring aspects of
African American artistic life across a range of media. In the essays
she discusses the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, and
Michael Harper; Jet magazine and the representation of black culture,
Denzel Washington as an icon of black masculinity, and the Rodney
King case and the collective memory of racial violence.
Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:Already highly regarded for her poetry, Elizabeth Alexander makes her mark as a major cultural critic. She examines the vital role of such heavyweight literary figures as Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, as well as lesser known, yet vibrant new creative voices. About the AuthorElizabeth Alexander is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Antebellum Dream Book. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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