A Mouth Is Always Muzzled: Six Dissidents, Five Continents, and the Art of Resistance Contributor(s): Hopkinson, Natalie (Author) |
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ISBN: 1620971240 ISBN-13: 9781620971246 Publisher: New Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover Published: February 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Art | Art & Politics |
Dewey: 700.904 |
LCCN: 2017022819 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.7" W x 8.2" L (0.75 lbs) 208 pages |
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product |
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 11/06/2017 Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2017 pg. 154 Foreword 12/26/2017 Booklist 02/01/2018 pg. 18 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award "A deeply felt and passionately expressed manifesto." --Kirkus Reviews (starred) A meditation in the spirit of John Berger and bell hooks on art as protest, contemplation, and beauty in politically perilous times As people consider how to respond to a resurgence of racist, xenophobic populism, A Mouth Is Always Muzzled tells an extraordinary story of the ways art brings hope in perilous times. Weaving disparate topics from sugar and British colonialism to attacks on free speech and Facebook activism and traveling a jagged path across the Americas, Africa, India, and Europe, Natalie Hopkinson, former culture writer for the Washington Post and The Root, argues that art is where the future is negotiated. Part post-colonial manifesto, part history of British Caribbean, part exploration of art in the modern world, A Mouth Is Always Muzzled is a dazzling analysis of the insistent role of art in contemporary politics and life. In crafted, well-honed prose, Hopkinson knits narratives of culture warriors: painter Bernadette Persaud, poet Ruel Johnson, historian Walter Rodney, novelist John Berger, and provocative African American artist Kara Walker, whose homage to the sugar trade Sugar Sphinx electrified American audiences. A Mouth Is Always Muzzled is a moving meditation documenting the artistic legacy generated in response to white supremacy, brutality, domination, and oppression. In the tradition of Paul Gilroy, it is a cri de coeur for the significance of politically bold--even dangerous--art to all people and nations. |
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