Austin Clarke's "Saga Boys": Black Aesthetics as Epistemology?
Austin Clarke in Nine Men Who Laughed and Ebony Patterson in her Gangstas for Life series both inspire an investigation of the way in which the "Black dandy" is an index of Black aesthetics as epistemology. Via a dialogue between Clarke's Black male dandies of the post 1960s Toronto in his short sto...
| Publicado en: | TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies (University of Toronto Press) Vol. 42; pp. 76 - 96 |
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University of Toronto Press
Spring2021
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