Black Times and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects
Join us for a Public Book Talk hosted by the Africana Studies Program Dr. Daphne Lamothe, professor of Africana Studies, provost, and dean of the faculty at Smith College.
Developing the idea of "Black aesthetic time"—a multipronged theoretical concept that analyzes the ways race and time collide in the process of cultural production—she assesses Black fiction, poetry, and visual and musical texts by Paule Marshall, Zadie Smith, Tracy K. Smith, Dionne Brand, Toyin Ojih Odutola, and Stromae, among others.
Lamothe asks how our understanding of Blackness might expand upon viewing racial representation without borders—or, to use her concept, from the permeable, supple place of Black aesthetic time.
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