Clarence Major and His Art: Portraits of an African American PostmodernistBernard W. Bell University of North Carolina Press, 2001 - 281 pages Poet, novelist, essayist, editor, anthologist, lexicographer, and painter, Clarence Major is one of the most challenging, prolific, yet underappreciated contemporary African American artists. This collection combines poetry, prose, and art by Major with critical essays by leading scholars that showcase Major's aesthetic movement across literary, cultural, and political boundaries and illuminate the complex relationship between the artist's writing and painting. Although Major's artistic vision is grounded in the historical experiences of black and Native American peoples, he boldly experiments with crossing boundaries of all types. His use of different narrative voices is evidence of what editor Bernard Bell calls Major's "double consciousness" as an African American artist. This collection highlights the breadth of Major's work, his transformation into a postmodern artist, and the hybrid voices of his literary and visual productions. By presenting Major's poetry, novels, and paintings alongside critical interpretations of these works, this book makes possible a long-overdue examination of a multitalented artist. |
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fire Contents 122400 ix Acknowledgments | 5 |
Clarence Majors Transgressive Voice and Double Consciousness as an African American Postmodernist Artist BERNARD W BELL POETRY | 5 |
View from the Middle Passage | 13 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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