{"product_id":"characteristics-of-negro-expression","title":"Characteristics Of Negro Expression","description":"\u003cp\u003eA critical analysis of African-American novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston'' 1934 essay \u003cem\u003eCharacteristics of Negro Expression: \u003c\/em\u003eA crushing evaluation of the many racial prejudices of 1930s America, including a common presumption that African American art was unoriginal – merely poorly copying white culture. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHurston’s approach and premises may seem in many ways dated to modern readers, but the essay still shows an incisive mind carefully evaluating arguments and cutting them down to size. African-American art of the time did not – Hurston influentially argued – play by the same rules as white art, so it could not meaningfully be discussed by ‘white’ notions of aesthetic value. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere white European tradition views art as something fixed, Hurston saw African-American art works as a distinctive form of mimicry, reshaping and altering the original object until it became something new and novel. In this way, she contended, African-American creative expression is a process that generates its own form of originality – turning borrowed material into something original and unique. By carefully evaluating the relevance of previous arguments, Hurston showed African American artistic expression in an entirely new light.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57310790615422,"sku":"NW9781912128112","price":10.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781912128112.jpg?v=1778583475","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/characteristics-of-negro-expression","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}