{"product_id":"black-people-are-my-business-toni-cade-bambaras-practices-of-liberation-hardcover","title":"Black People Are My Business: Toni Cade Bambara's Practices of Liberation - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThabiti Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Black People Are My Business\" Toni Cade Bambara's Practices of Liberation\u003c\/em\u003e studies the works of Bambara (1939-1995), an author, documentary filmmaker, social activist, and professor. Thabiti Lewis's analysis serves as a cultural biography, examining the liberation impulses in Bambara's writing, which is concerned with practices that advance the material value of the African American experience and exploring the introspection between artist production and social justice. This is the first monograph that focuses on Bambara's unique approach and important literary contribution to 1970s and 1980s African American literature. It explores her unique nationalist, feminist, Marxist, and spiritualist ethos, which cleared space for many innovations found in black women's fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDivided into five chapters, Lewis's study relies on Bambara's voice (from interviews and essays) to craft a \"spiritual wholeness aesthetic\"-a set of principles that comes out of her practices of liberation and entail family, faith, feeling, and freedom-that reveals her ability to interweave ethnic identity, politics, and community engagement and responsibility with the impetus of balancing black male and female identity influences and interactions within and outside the community. One key feature of Bambara's work is the concentration on women as cultural workers whereby her notion of spiritual wholeness upends what has become a scholarly distinction between feminism and black nationalism. Bambara's fiction situates her as a pivotal voice within the Black Arts Movement and contemporary African American literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBambara is an understudied and important artistic voice whose aversion to playing it safe both personified and challenged the boundaries of black nationalism and feminism. \u003cem\u003e\"Black People Are My Business\"\u003c\/em\u003e is a wonderful addition to any reader's list, especially those interested in African American literary and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThabiti Lewis is professor of English and interim associate vice chancellor of academic affairs at Washington State University, Vancouver. He is also the editor of \u003ci\u003eConversations with Toni Cade Bambara\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBallers of the New School: Race and Sports in America\u003c\/i\u003e. He writes extensively about masculinity, sports, and popular culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 252\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 08, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45673923706982,"sku":"9780814346075","price":162.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/RDZCMHhUVnB3V0dweGxaa3JOM1JNQT09.webp?v=1780127425","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/black-people-are-my-business-toni-cade-bambaras-practices-of-liberation-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}