{"product_id":"millennial-style-9781478030201","title":"Millennial Style","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMillennial Style\u003c\/i\u003e, Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman looks at recent experiments in black expressive culture that begin in the place of ruin. By ruin, Abdur-Rahman means the political terror and social abjection that constitute the ongoing peril of black lives. Whereas earlier black writers and artists have employed realist modes of expression to represent racial harm and to imaginatively remediate it, the black avant-garde of today displays more experimental methods. Abdur-Rahman outlines four widely employed modes in contemporary African diasporic cultural production: Black Grotesquerie, Hollowed Blackness, Black Cacophony, and the Black Ecstatic. Mobilizing black feminist and black radical thought, she considers work by such cultural practitioners as Wangechi Mutu, Marci Blackman, Alexandria Smith, Colson Whitehead, Toni Morrison, Harmony Holiday, and Essex Hemphill. Writerly and experimental, \u003ci\u003eMillennial Style\u003c\/i\u003e theorizes contemporary black art as the holding (or hoarding) of bl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eMillennial Style\u003c\/i\u003e, Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman makes a forceful argument for specifying different modes of black experimentation and connecting them explicitly to modes not only of survival but of refusals of various forms of domination. Beautifully written and intellectually engaging, \u003ci\u003eMillennial Style\u003c\/i\u003e’s important sustained analyses of black experimental cultural production and vital insights make a major contribution.” -- Amber Jamilla Musser, author of * Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined *\u003cbr\u003e“Without a doubt Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman is one of the most important scholars in black cultural theory, gender studies, and sexuality studies. With this new work, she focuses on the refusal of realism in contemporary black art practices to theorize blackness and being among disaster politics, environmental devastation, state killings of black people, perpetual poverty in the post-Civil Rights era. \u003ci\u003eMillennial Style\u003c\/i\u003e is a striking, beautifully written, and insistent text that needs to be read by the broadest audience possible.” -- Roderick A. Ferguson, author of * One-Dimensional Queer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. Toward a Radical Theory of the Black Avant-Garde  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Black Grotesquerie  25\u003cbr\u003e 2. Hollowed Blackness  49\u003cbr\u003e 3. Black Cacophony  77\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Black Ecstatic  105\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. On Sustenance and Suture  131\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  137\u003cbr\u003e Notes  141\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  157\u003cbr\u003e Index  165","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409022427479,"sku":"9781478030201","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/millennial-style-9781478030201","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}