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04751aam a2200697 i 4500 001 D0E57BA6DB5211ED9E68857C25ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230415010025 008 211228s2022 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021057279 020 $a 0231205031 020 $a 9780231205030 020 $a 0231205023 020 $a 9780231205023 035 $a (OCoLC)1287922221 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d YDX $d BDX $d DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS153.B53 $b B76 2022 082 00 $a 810.9/896073 $2 23/eng/20211228 100 1 $a Brooks, John, $d 1989- $e author. 245 14 $a The racial unfamiliar : $b illegibility in Black literature and culture / $c John Brooks. 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a xi, 287 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Literature now 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a African American art $y 21st century. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Race identity. 650 0 $a Race in literature. 650 0 $a Race in art. 650 0 $a African Americans in literature. 650 0 $a African Americans in art. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Intellectual life $y 21st century. 650 6 $a Art noir américain $y 21e siècle. 650 6 $a Noirs américains $x Identité ethnique. 650 6 $a Race dans la littérature. 650 6 $a Race dans l'art. 650 6 $a Noirs américains dans la littérature. 650 6 $a Noirs américains dans l'art. 650 6 $a Noirs américains $x Vie intellectuelle $y 21e siècle. 650 7 $a African American art. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799012 650 7 $a African Americans in art. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799722 650 7 $a African Americans in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799727 650 7 $a African Americans $x Intellectual life. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799627 650 7 $a African Americans $x Race identity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799666 650 7 $a American literature $x African American authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807114 650 7 $a Race in art. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01904405 650 7 $a Race in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086506 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01986215 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Critiques littéraires. $2 rvmgf 776 08 $i Online version: $a Brooks, John. $t Racial unfamiliar $d New York : Columbia University Press, 2022 $z 9780231555807 $w (DLC) 2021057280 830 0 $a Literature Now 941 $a 1 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20230415010049.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D0E57BA6DB5211ED9E68857C25ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b NIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search