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description: In the shifting and conflicting currents of recent cultural criticism no space is more ambiguous or difficult to define than that held by black feminism. In this new book Michele Wallace poses the historical and conceptual questions which an emergent black feminist theory address.The author begins with a consideration of the work of her mother the artist Faith Ringgold and moves on to recollections of her own early life in Harlem and an account of her development as a writer in the 1970s. She examines the collective legacy with which black artistsfrom Zora Neale Hurston and Ntozake Shange to Spike Lee and Michael Jacksonmust contend in carving out a distinctive cultural practice.Wallaces book marks a new departure in contemporary criticism as she combines the flair of a popular journalist with the rigor of a committed scholar. Invisibility Blues is certain to become a landmark in cultural studies and a fundamental document in the history of black feminism.
language: English
title: Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory (Haymarket
publisher: Verso