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ISBN: 9783956794452
Format: Paper over boards
Year: 2019
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Pages: 368
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A portrait via interviews and essays of New York City at the end of the 1970s as the center of the African diaspora."Fichte did away with the opposition between objective and poetic writing-his heightened objectivity becomes poetic, his poetry journalistic. He wrote to fight against bigotry and provincialism, and developed approaches in the 1970s that are discussed today in queer studies and postcolonialism."
-Diedrich Diederichsen
The Black City is a portrait of New York City written by Hubert Fichte between 1978 and 1980. One of Germany's most important postwar authors, Fichte researched the city as the center of the African diaspora, conducting interviews and composing essays about syncretism in culture and the arts, material living conditions in the city, and political and individual struggles based on race, class, and sexuality. His interview partners include Michael Chisolm, arts educator and coordinator of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition; German emigre and artist Lil Picard; photographer Richard Avedon; Leopold
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ISBN: 9783956794452
Format: Paper over boards
Year: 2019
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Pages: 368
Description:
A portrait via interviews and essays of New York City at the end of the 1970s as the center of the African diaspora."Fichte did away with the opposition between objective and poetic writing-his heightened objectivity becomes poetic, his poetry journalistic. He wrote to fight against bigotry and provincialism, and developed approaches in the 1970s that are discussed today in queer studies and postcolonialism."
-Diedrich Diederichsen
The Black City is a portrait of New York City written by Hubert Fichte between 1978 and 1980. One of Germany's most important postwar authors, Fichte researched the city as the center of the African diaspora, conducting interviews and composing essays about syncretism in culture and the arts, material living conditions in the city, and political and individual struggles based on race, class, and sexuality. His interview partners include Michael Chisolm, arts educator and coordinator of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition; German emigre and artist Lil Picard; photographer Richard Avedon; Leopold
This product has FREE shipping however combined shipping for other products is not available with this item. Please allow up to 10 days for shipping.
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