'Black' British Aesthetics Today is a collection of
twenty-four exciting critical and theoretical essays
exploring current thinking about the hottest artistic,
literary, and critical works now being produced by
'black' Britons. This book features a number of chapters
by the avant-garde 'black' British novelists, poets, and
artists themselves. It includes, for instance, aesthetic
manifestos by Diran Adebayo, Anthony Joseph, Roshini
Kempadoo, Sheree Mack, Valerie Mason-John, and SuAndi as
well as key essays by globally renowned critics,
including Amna Malik, Kobena Mercer, Lauri Ramey, Roy
Sommer, and many others. As a compendium, this book
represents a powerfully fresh intellectual current of
thought. It provides readers with important insights
into contemporary 'black' aesthetics, and it includes an
array of important clarifications initially voiced at
the groundbreaking international symposium that took
place on April 8, 2006, at Howard University in
Washington, D.C., by outstanding new scholars in this
burgeoning field of study: e.g., Kevin Etienne-Cummings,
Valerie Kaneko Lucas, Michael McMillan, Magdalena
Maczynska, Courtney Martin, Jude Okpala, Deirdre
Osborne, Koye Oyedeji, Meenakshi Ponnuswami, Sandra
Ponzanesi, Andrene M. Taylor, Samera Owusu Tutu, and
Tracey Walters. The authors contextualise contemporary
'black' British aesthetics in relation to the African,
African American, and Postcolonial aesthetic traditions;
they explore an exciting array of critical theories,
trends of feeling, and lively aesthetic movements
thriving today in 'black' Britain; and, they examine and
assess embodied aesthetics at play in a wide range of
specific works by today's most brilliant 'black' British
novelists, poets, photographers, live performance
artists, dramatists, architects, musicians, graphic
artists, and cinematographers.
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