Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory - Brossura

Wallace, Michele

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ISBN 10: 0860915190 ISBN 13: 9780860915195

Casa editrice: Verso Books, 1990

Riassunto

In the shifting and conflicting currents of recent cultural criticism, no space is more ambiguous or difficult to define than that held by black feminism. In this new book, Michele Wallace poses the historical and conceptual questions which an emergent black feminist theory address.

The author begins with a consideration of the work of her mother, the artist Faith Ringgold, and moves on to recollections of her own early life in Harlem, and an account of her development as a writer in the 1970s. She examines the collective legacy with which black artists—from Zora Neale Hurston and Ntozake Shange, to Spike Lee and Michael Jackson—must contend in carving out a distinctive cultural practice.

Wallace’s book marks a new departure in contemporary criticism, as she combines the flair of a popular journalist with the rigor of a committed scholar. Invisibility Blues is certain to become a landmark in cultural studies and a fundamental document in the history of black feminism.

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Recensione:

“Always provocative, always intelligent, Wallace is not only a keenly incisive critical voice, but a humane and generous one as well.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

“Michele Wallace keeps her eyes open and her wits about her. Scrupulously fair, honest, funny, clever, wise.”—Angela Carter

“One of the most talented and provocative cultural critics now writing in the USA. Listen and learn!”—Cornel West

L'autore:

Michele Wallace earned her Ph.D. in Cinema Studies at New York University. She is a professor of English at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. Her seminal book Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman is also available from Verso.

Mike Davis is the author of several books including Planet of Slums, City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Late Victorian Holocausts, and Magical Urbanism. He was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. He lives in Papa’aloa, Hawaii.

Michael Sprinker was Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His Imaginary Relations: Aesthetics and Ideology in the History of Historical Materialism and History and Ideology in Proust are also published by Verso. Together with Mike Davis, he founded Verso’s Haymarket Series and guided it until his death in 1999.

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• Editore: Verso Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0860915190
• ISBN 13: 9780860915195
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 284