[8] In his 1956 essay for Présence Africaine, Haitian novelist Jacques Stephen Alexis wrote: "What, then, is the Marvellous, except the imagery in which a people wraps its experience, reflects its conception of the world and of life, its faith, its hope, its confidence in man, in a great justice, and the explanation which it finds for the forces antagonistic to progress?
The term "Afro-surreal Expressionism" was coined by Amiri Baraka in his 1974 essay on Black Arts Movement avant-garde writer Henry Dumas.
But, for Baraka, this "language tells as well as decorates": The world of Ark of Bones, for instance, shares a black mythological lyricism, strange yet ethnically familiar!
[12]Dumas, therefore, was—"despite his mythological elegance and deep signification"—still "part of the wave of African American writers at the forefront of the '60s Black Arts Movement".
[13] Precisely because of its strangeness and its deformation of reality, Dumas work bears a deep political truth: "The very broken quality, almost to abstraction, is a function of change and transition.
"[15] According to Terri Francis: "Afro-surrealism is art with skin on it where the texture of the object tells its story, how it weathered burial below consciousness, and how it emerged somewhat mysteriously from oceans of forgotten memories and discarded keepsakes.
For the Afro-surrealists, the focus has been set at the "here and now" of contemporary Black arts and situations in the Americas, Antilles, and beyond, searching for the nuanced "scent" of those current manifestations.
The space in the poem allows Philip's audience to hear the silence of these voices, to truly understand the missing narratives form the past and the role that has on the present.
The series centers on college dropout and music manager Earnest "Earn" Marks (played by Glover) and rapper Paper Boi (Brian Tyree Henry) as they navigate a strange, seemingly otherworldly version of the Atlanta rap scene, examining racism, whiteness, existentialism and modern African-American culture through Afro-Surrealism.
Sorry to Bother You is a 2018 American surrealist, urban fantasy, science fiction, black-comedy film written and directed by Boots Riley, in his directorial debut.
It stars LaKeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Jermaine Fowler, Omari Hardwick, Terry Crews, Patton Oswalt, David Cross, Danny Glover, Steven Yeun, and Armie Hammer.
[22] Random Acts of Flyness (2018–present) is a late night sketch comedy series created by American artist Terence Nance for HBO.
Throughout the album, capricious changes between musical genres highlight the fickleness of public perception towards women of the African Diaspora while the application of code-switching and colloquialisms in Beyonce's lyricism aim to illustrate the prevalence of respectability politics which has been a major tenant of racial socialization.
Popular sources and scholastic platforms both utilize Lemonade in the sociological discourse about how generations of black American women have experienced misogynoir.
The reinterpretation of a physical disability as a "superpower" exemplifies the African-American community's application of religious belief as a means of problem-solving, perseverance, and optimism amidst their institutionalized mistreatment throughout the era of U.S. Slavery.