Search results
This article is a review of a symposium entitled, “In a Speculative Light: The Arts of James Baldwin and Beauford Delaney,” held at the University of Tennessee on 19–21 February 2020.
discovered his own culture but because ‘it was becoming impossible for him to breathe’. 54 But the world of imagination is political. The cultural critic Fred Moten imagines revolt at the level of a radical Black aesthetic, one that offers ‘resistance to power and objection to subjection’ through an ‘ongoing performance’ of ‘encounter … rupture, collision’. 55 A practice