LEADER 05321nam 2200577 450 001 9910822216303321 005 20230803205748.0 010 $a1-4214-1521-6 035 $a(CKB)3710000000268631 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001369677 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11771013 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001369677 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11289883 035 $a(PQKB)10604935 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3318852 035 $a(OCoLC)894227628 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37318 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3318852 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10960875 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000268631 100 $a20141106h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFreedom time $ethe poetics and politics of black experimental writing /$fAnthony Reed 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cJohns Hopkins University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (262 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aCallaloo African Diaspora Series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-4214-1520-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"In Freedom Time, Anthony Reed reclaims the power of black experimental poetry and prose by arguing that if literature fundamentally serves the human need for freedom in expression, then readers and critics must see it as something other than a reflection of the politics of social protest and identity formation. Prior to the successful campaigns against Jim Crow segregation in the U.S. and colonization in the Caribbean, literary politics seemed much more obviously interventionist. As more African Americans and Afro-Caribbean writers gained access to formal political power, more writing emerged whose political concerns went beyond improving racial representation, appealing for social recognition, raising consciousness, or commenting on the political disillusion and fragmentation of the post-segregation and post-colonial moments. Through formal innovation and abstraction, writers increasingly pushed the limits of representation and expression in order to extend the limits of thought and literary possibility. Reed offers a theoretical account of this new "black experimental writing," which is at once a literary historical development, and a concept with which to analyze the ways writing engages race and the possibilities of expression. One of his key interventions is arguing that form drives the politics literature, not vice-versa. Through extended analyses of works by N. H. Pritchard, NourbeSe Philip, Kamau Brathwaite, Claudia Rankine, Douglas Kearney, Harryette Mullen, Suzan-Lori Parks and Nathaniel Mackey, Freedom Time draws out the political implication of their innovative approaches to literary aesthetics"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"Standard literary criticism tends to either ignore or downplay the unorthodox tradition of black experimental writing that emerged in the wake of protests against colonization and Jim Crow-era segregation. Histories of African American literature likewise have a hard time accounting for the distinctiveness of experimental writing, which is part of a general shift in emphasis among black writers away from appeals for social recognition or raising consciousness. In Freedom Time--the second book to appear in the Callaloo African Diaspora Series--Anthony Reed offers a theoretical reading of "black experimental writing" that understands the term both as a profound literary development and as a concept with which to analyze the ways that writing challenges us to rethink the relationships between race and literary techniques. Through extended analyses of works by African American and Afro-Caribbean writers--including N. H. Pritchard, Suzan-Lori Parks, NourbeSe Philip, Kamau Brathwaite, Claudia Rankine, Douglas Kearney, Harryette Mullen, and Nathaniel Mackey--Reed develops a new sense of the literary politics of formally innovative writing and the connections between literature and politics since the 1960s. Freedom Time reclaims the power of experimental black voices by arguing that, if literature fundamentally serves the human need for freedom in expression, then readers and critics must see it as more than a mere reflection of the politics of social protest and identity formation. With an approach informed by literary, cultural, African American, and feminist studies, Reed shows how reworking literary materials and conventions liberates writers to push the limits of representation and expression"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aCallaloo African diaspora series. 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature, Experimental$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature, Experimental$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a810.9/896073 686 $aLIT006000$aPOE005050$aLIT004040$2bisacsh 700 $aReed$b Anthony$f1978-$01659875 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822216303321 996 $aFreedom time$94014746 997 $aUNINA