{"product_id":"black-and-more-than-black-african-american-fiction-in-the-post-era-9781496824561","title":"Black and More Than Black: African American Fiction in the Post Era","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCHOICE \u003c\/i\u003eOutstanding Academic Title for 2020\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePost-Blackness. Post-Soul. Post-Black Art. New Blackness. How has the meaning of blackness changed in the twenty-first century? Cameron Leader-Picone suggests that this proliferation of terms, along with the renewed focus on questioning the relationship between individual black artists and the larger black community, indicates the arrival of novel forms of black identity and black art. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Leader-Picone defines these terms as significant facets of a larger post era, linking them with the social and political context of Barack Obama's presidency. Analyzing claims of progress associated with Obama's election and post-era thinking, he examines the contours of black aesthetics in the new century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e To do so, he sifts through post-era African American fiction, considering both celebrations and rejections of an early twenty-first-century rhetoric of progress. In addition, he maps the subsequent implications of these concepts for rearticulating racial identities. Through the works of Colson Whitehead, Alice Randall, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Paul Beatty, Kiese Laymon, and Jesmyn Ward, Leader-Picone tracks how recent fiction manifests the tension between the embrace of post-civil rights era gains and the recognition of persistent structural racism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Ultimately far less triumphal than the prefix \u003ci\u003epost\u003c\/i\u003e would imply, these authors address the Black Arts Movement and revise double consciousness and other key themes from the African American literary tradition. They interrogate their relevance in an era encompassing not only the election of the nation's first black president, but also the government's failed response to Hurricane Katrina, the expansion of class divisions within the black community, mass incarceration, and ongoing police violence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCameron Leader-Picone\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of English at Kansas State University, specializing in the politics of identity in twenty-first-century African American culture. He has published articles in \u003ci\u003eContemporary Literature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMELUS\u003c\/i\u003e and contributed an essay to the edited volume \u003ci\u003ePost-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights\u003c\/i\u003e, published by University Press of Mississippi.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51424401948946,"sku":"9781496824561","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7b87c1c6-74d3-4bfc-aea7-160dfb37c1b9.jpg?v=1751374750","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/black-and-more-than-black-african-american-fiction-in-the-post-era-9781496824561","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}