TY  - GEN
T1  - A mouth is always muzzled : six dissidents, five continents, and the art of resistance
A1  - Hopkinson, Natalie
LA  - English
PP  - New York
PB  - The New Press
YR  - 2018
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_ocn987437584
AB  - 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.
CN  - NX180.P67
SN  - 9781620971253
SN  - 1620971259
SN  - 9781620971246
KW  - Postcolonialism and the arts.
KW  - Arts : Political aspects.
KW  - Race in art.
KW  - Postcolonialism and the arts : Guyana.
KW  - Arts : Political aspects : Guyana.
KW  - Guyana : Social conditions : 1966-
KW  - Postcolonialisme et arts.
KW  - Race dans l'art.
KW  - Postcolonialisme et arts : Guyana.
KW  - Guyana : Conditions sociales : 1966-
KW  - Arts : Aspect politique.
KW  - Arts : Aspect politique : Guyana.
KW  - ART : Performance.
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KW  - Arts : Political aspects
KW  - Postcolonialism and the arts
KW  - Race in art
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Guyana
KW  - Since 1966
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