How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity

How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity
ISBN-10
1478010878
ISBN-13
9781478010876
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
296
Language
English
Published
2020-09-11
Publisher
Black Outdoors: Innovations in
Author
La Marr Jurelle Bruce

Description

La Marr Jurelle Bruce ponders the presence of "madness" in black literature, music, and performance since the early twentieth century, showing how artist ranging from Kendrick Lamar and Lauryn Hill to Nina Simone and Dave Chappelle activate madness as content, form, aesthetic, strategy, philosophy, and energy in an enduring black radical tradition.

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