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Cover credits: Cover design: Julie Metz / Cover art: Elizabeth Catlett, The Black Woman Speaks, licensed by VAGA, New York, NY |
"The Black Interior, a critical look at some of black America's
most influential cultural voices, may be another such
masterpiece....Best known for her poetry, it may be that poet's
lyricism and eye for nuance that makes this new work so compelling." —SAVOY |
Price: $15.00 USD
Essays 1-55597-393-0, 224 pages, Paper
In The Black Interior, poet Elizabeth Alexander explores a wide
spectrum of contemporary African American artistic life through
literature, paintings, film, and popular media, and discusses its place
in current culture. She examines the vital role of such heavyweight
literary figures as Gwendolyn Brooks, Michael Harper, and Langston
Hughes, 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.
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