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Vol.4 , No. 1, Publication Date: Jan. 11, 2021, Page: 1-6
| [1] | Hamza Rauf Awan, Department of English, Forman Christian College University, Lahore, Pakistan. |
The broad range of postcolonial literature deals with the issues of racism, anti-colonial rhetoric and rights acceptance, and it presents itself as resistance to common beliefs of universal euro-centrism. The present dissertation endeavors to highlight the socio-cultural and literary aspects of art which provides the external settings of the age it is being produced in and also unveils the overt ideology imbedded in literature. Moreover, it relies on two central questions: how African-Americans art becomes a voice of collective black consciousness and in what manners artistic compositions alter the conceptions and pre-perceptions of the natives under colonization. It contends that Angelou’ and Baraka’s poetry and its aesthetics not only pinpoint the black cultural stereotypes but also become a channel to disseminate the shared problems and consciousness of the color people. This research propounds to explore the black experience embedded in art and explores how art has always been a vessel for demonstration of collective experience of a community. By addressing the intricacies of black aesthetics in Afro-American art, this research props up new dimensions to study black experience and especially the concept of Eurocentrism in new folds in the contemporary age; this research paper, all in all, explores and analysis black experience along with black aesthetics in art.
Keywords
Color People, Black Consciousness, Black Art and Resistance
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