Black cultural production after civil rights /edited by Robert J. Patterson.

"Robert J. Patterson and his contributors interrogate how African American writers and cultural producers use black modes of cultural expressivity to engage, make, and change history in order to imagine the future and to provide alternate ways of thinking, existing, and being for black subjects in particular, and American citizens in general, in the midst of this historical paradox. This volume insists that black cultural production during the 1970s anchors the philosophical, aesthetic, and political debates that animate contemporary debates in African American studies, and insists that, despite abject social and political conditions, black cultural production keeps imagining black thriving. Simultaneously, it demonstrates the specific ways that the cultural production itself re(imagines) ways to transform that which prevents black thriving. Thus, the volume argues that African American cultural production continues to engage in social critique and transformation and remains an important site for the (re)making of black politics"--

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: Dreams reimagined : political possibilities and the black cultural imagination / Robert J. Patterson -- Freedom now : black power and the literature of slavery / Madhu Dubey -- Generations : slavery and the post-civil rights literary imagination / Lisa Woolfork -- Slavery now : 1970s influence post-20th-century films on American slavery / Monica White Ndounou -- Movin' on up and out : remapping 1970s African American visual culture / Courtney R. Baker -- "Can you kill" : Vietnam, black power, and militancy in black feminist literature / Nadine M. Knight -- The future in black and white : Fran Ross, Adrienne Kennedy, and post-civil rights black feminist thought / Samantha Pinto -- Renegotiating racial discourse : the blues, black feminist thought, and post-civil rights literary renewal in Gayl Jones's Corregidora / Jermaine Singleton -- From blaxploitation to black macho : the angry black woman comes of age / Terrion L. Williamson -- From the ground up : readers and publishers in the making of a literary public / Kinohi Nishikawa -- A woman's trip : domestic violence and black feminist healing in Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls / Soyica Diggs Colbert -- Afterword: Post-soul : post-civil rights considerations in the 21st century / Robert J. Patterson.

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