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<table width="100%" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="20%" class="bibInfoLabel">Shelf #</td> <td class="bibInfoData"> BH 221.U53 HAR</td></tr> </table>  </td></tr> </table>   <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="bibDetail"> <tr class="bibInfoEntry" ><td>  <table width="100%" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="20%" class="bibInfoLabel">Imprint</td> <td class="bibInfoData"> <a href="/search?/eNew+York+University+Press%2C/enew+york+university+press/-3,-1,0,B/browse">New York : New York University Press, [2015]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td></td> <td class="bibInfoData"> 漏2015</td></tr> </table>  </td></tr> </table>  <div class="testlinkeddocs"> </div> <div class="bibDisplayUrls"> </div> <div class="bibDisplayItems"> <div class="bibDisplayItemsHeader"><h2>Copies</h2></div> <div class="bibDisplayItemsMain"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="bibItems"> <tr class="bibItemsHeader"> <th width="33%" class="bibItemsHeader"> LOCATION </th> <th width="43%" class="bibItemsHeader"> SHELF NO </th> <th width="24%" class="bibItemsHeader"> STATUS </th> </tr> <tr class="bibItemsEntry"> <td width="33%" > Main Library </td> <td width="43%" > <a href="/search?/cBH+221.U53+HAR/cbh++221+u53+har/-3,-1,,E/browse">BH 221.U53 HAR</a>  </td> <td width="24%" > Not Issued </td></tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="bibDisplayContentMore">  <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="bibDetail"> <tr class="bibInfoEntry" ><td>  <table width="100%" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="20%" class="bibInfoLabel">Description</td> <td class="bibInfoData"> 280 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="20%" class="bibInfoLabel">Series</td> <td class="bibInfoData"> <a href="/search?/tNYU+series+in+social+and+cultural+analysis./tnyu+series+in+social+and+cultural+analysis/-3,-1,0,B/browse">NYU series in social and cultural analysis.</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="20%" class="bibInfoLabel">Bibliog.</td> <td class="bibInfoData"> Includes bibliographical references and index.</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="20%" class="bibInfoLabel">Contents</td> <td class="bibInfoData"> Introduction: Against positive images -- Black personhood in the maw of abstraction -- Historical cadence and the nitty-gritty effect -- Telling it slant -- Coda: The literary advantage.</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="20%" class="bibInfoLabel">Summary</td> <td class="bibInfoData"> In a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the "proper" depiction of black people. He advocates for African American aesthetic abstractionism--a representational mode whereby an artwork, rather than striving for realist verisimilitude, vigorously asserts its essentially artificial character. Maintaining that realist representation reaffirms the very social facts that it might have been understood to challenge, Harper contends that abstractionism shows up the actual constructedness of those facts, thereby subjecting them to critical scrutiny and making them amenable to transformation. Arguing against the need for "positive" representations, Abstractionist Aesthetics displaces realism as the primary mode of African American representational aesthetics, re-centers literature as a principal site of African American cultural politics, and elevates experimental prose within the domain of African American literature. Drawing on examples across a variety of artistic production, including the visual work of Fred Wilson and Kara Walker, the music of Billie Holiday and Cecil Taylor, and the prose and verse writings of Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, and John Keene, this book poses urgent questions about how racial blackness is made to assume certain social meanings. In the process, African American aesthetics are upended, rendering abstractionism as the most powerful modality for Black representation. -- Amazon.com.</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="20%" class="bibInfoLabel">Subject</td> <td class="bibInfoData"> <a href="/search?/dAfrican+American+aesthetics./dafrican+american+aesthetics/-3,-1,0,B/browse">African American aesthetics.</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td></td> <td class="bibInfoData"> <a href="/search?/dAbstraction./dabstraction/-3,-1,0,B/browse">Abstraction.</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td></td> <td class="bibInfoData"> <a href="/search?/dAfrican+American+arts+--+Themes%2C+motives./dafrican+american+arts+themes+motives/-3,-1,0,B/browse">African American arts -- Themes, motives.</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="20%" class="bibInfoLabel">ISBN</td> <td class="bibInfoData"> 9781479865437</td></tr> <tr> <td></td> <td class="bibInfoData"> 1479865435</td></tr> <tr> <td></td> <td class="bibInfoData"> 9781479818365</td></tr> <tr> <td></td> <td class="bibInfoData"> 1479818364</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="20%" class="bibInfoLabel">Standard #</td> <td class="bibInfoData"> 40025574699</td></tr> </table>  </td></tr> </table>  </div> <div class="bibDisplayContentMore bibDisplayReviews"> <div class="bibDisplayPermLink actionButtonArea"> <a href="/record=b1805900"><span class="button"><img src="/screens/ico_bookmark.gif" alt=""><span class="buttonText">Permanent Link</span></span></a></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <br />    </div> <div> <center> <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style "> <a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a> <a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a> <a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a> <a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a> <a class="addthis_button_compact"></a> <a class="addthis_counter addthis_bubble_style"></a> </div> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true};</script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#pubid=ra-4dff039d048138b4"></script> </center> </div> </div> </div>  </body> </html>