Duplan, Anais, author.

Blackspace : on the poetics of an afrofuture / Anaïs Duplan.

First edition.

Boston, MA : Black Ocean, [2020]
©2020

1 online resource (114 pages.).

Black Ocean: Undercurrents

"Black artists of the avant-garde have always defined the future. Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture is the culmination of six years of multidisciplinary research by trans poet and curator Anas̐ Duplan about the aesthetic strategies used by experimental artists of color since the 1960s to pursue liberatory possibility. Through a series of lyric essays, interviews with contemporary artists and writers of color, and ekphrastic poetry, Duplan deconstructs how creative people frame their relationships to the word, "liberation." With a focus on creatives who use digital media and language-as-technology -- luminaries like Actress, Juliana Huxtable, Lawrence Andrews, Tony Cokes, Sondra Perry, and Nathaniel Mackey -- Duplan offers three lenses for thinking about liberation: the personal, the social, and the existential. Arguing that true freedom is impossible without considering all three, the book culminates with a personal essay meditating on the author's own journey of gender transition while writing the book."-- Provided by distributor.

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Afrofuturism.
African American arts 21st century.
Arts, American 21st century.
Aesthetics.
Liberty in art.
African American artists Interviews.
Arts noirs américains 21e siècle.
Liberté dans l'art.
Artistes noirs américains Entretiens.
Afrofuturisme.
Arts américains 21e siècle.
Afrofuturist.
African American artists
African American arts
Arts, American

Electronic books.
Interviews

Undercurrents (Black Ocean)