Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life

by Christopher Freeburg

Book Overview

Christopher Freeburg's Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life offers a crucial new reading of a neglected aspect of African American literature and art across the long twentieth century. Rejecting the idea that the most dehumanizing of black experiences, such as lynching or other racial violence, have completely robbed victims of their personhood, Freeburg rethinks what it means to be a person in the works of black artists. This book advances...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081394032X
• ISBN13: 9780813940328
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 8.8"