Post-authenticity: understanding the contingency of Blackness through post-soul memoirs
FRANCESCA FURLAN
Abstract
Monia Dal Checco’s first monograph is a thoroughly researched overview of the reworkings of blackness operated by so-called “post-soul authors” – a generation of Black Americans who came of age after the end of the great social movements of the Sixties and Seventies. Through the analysis of six memoirs, Dal Checco outlines blackness in contingent and relational terms, highlighting how a stable and finite racial identity is fundamentally unattainable.
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Post-Soul, memoir, authenticity, Blackness, blaxploration
Pages
107-111