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Imagine the Sound: Experimental African American Literature after Civil Rights

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Description for Imagine the Sound: Experimental African American Literature after Civil Rights Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.

The post–Civil Rights era was marked by an explosion of black political thought and aesthetics. Reflecting a shifting horizon of expectations around race relations, the unconventional sounds of free jazz coupled with experimental literary creation nuanced the push toward racial equality and enriched the possibilities for aesthetic innovation within the Black Arts Movement. In Imagine the Sound, Carter Mathes demonstrates how African American writers used sound to further artistic resistance within a rapidly transforming political and racial landscape.

While many have noted the oral and musical qualities of African American poetry from the post–Civil Rights period, Mathes points out how ... Read more

In precise and elegant prose, Mathes shows how in conceptualizing sound, African American writers opened up the political imaginations of their readers. By exploring this intellectual convergence of literary artistry, experimental music, and sound theory, Imagine the Sound reveals how taking up radically new forms of expression allows us to speak to the complexities of race and political resistance.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816693061
SKU
V9780816693061
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About Carter Mathes
Carter Mathes is associate professor of English at Rutgers University.

Reviews for Imagine the Sound: Experimental African American Literature after Civil Rights
“With extraordinary sensitivity, Carter Mathes explores the ways that sound plays a crucial role in African American literature as a means of indexing a space of thought. Imagine the Sound takes its place among the best recent scholarship, teaching us what it means to read in the wake of the Black Arts Movement.” —Brent Hayes Edwards, author of The Practice ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Imagine the Sound: Experimental African American Literature after Civil Rights


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