Towards Post-Blackness: A Critical Study of Rita Dove's Poetry

ISBN-13: 9781636671796 / Angielski

Shirley R. Steinberg; Lekha Roy

Opis

The book is a detailed introduction to Post-Blackness as a literary aesthetic, tracing its emergence to the philosophical movement that defined itself in the visual arts towards the end of the twentieth century.

Recenzje

Towards Post-Blackness: A Critical Study of Rita Dove's Poetry is a major contribution to literary-cultural studies on the philosophy of race. In interpreting the poet's creative and liberative journey towards self-knowledge in Hegelian terms, Roy reignites the ontological questions that permeate concepts of race, identity, and the role of language in defining ideas of the Self and the Other. This book bridges the gap between poetry and visual art to define Post-Blackness as a philosophy of life for a people straining to break away from the labels that define them. -Prof. Bijoy H. Boruah, Visiting Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, India Author of Fiction and Emotion: A Study in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Mind

O autorze

Lekha Roy is an academic, writer, and critic based in India. She received her Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, and has published several articles on race, trauma, and power relations. Her work focuses on the role of language and images in the dynamics of identity formation, with special emphasis on changing contours of the personal and the political. Lekha Roy can be reached at lekharoy91@gmail.com.