Black British Aesthetics Today
Essays

A collection of twenty-four theoretical essays that explores the thinking about the hottest artistic, literary, and critical works being produced by 'black' Britons. It provides readers with important insights into contemporary 'black' aesthetics.

Kevin Etienne-Cummings, Valerie Kaneko Lucas, Michael McMillan, Magdalena Maczynska, Courtney Martin, Jude Okpala, Deirdre Osborne, Koye Oyedeji, Meenakshi Ponnuswami, Sandra Ponzanesi, Andrene M. Taylor, Samera Owusu Tutu, and Tracey Walters. The authors contextualise contemporary 'black' British aesthetics in relation to the African, African American, and Postcolonial aesthetic traditions; they explore an exciting array of critical theories, trends of feeling, and lively aesthetic movements thriving today in 'black' Britain; and, they examine and assess embodied aesthetics at play in a wide range of specific works by today's most brilliant 'black' British novelists, poets, photographers, live performance artists, dramatists, architects, musicians, graphic artists, and cinematographers.