In Search of a Beautiful Freedom

New and Selected Essays

Farah Jasmine Griffin (Columbia University)

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WW Norton & Co
30 May 2023

Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Feminism & feminist theory; Gender studies: women; Black & Asian studies

"In Search of a Beautiful Freedom brings together the best work from Farah Jasmine Griffin's rich forays on music, Black feminism, literature, the crises of Hurricane Katrina and COVID-19, and the Black artists she esteems. She moves from evoking the haunting strength of Odetta and the rise of soprano popular singers in the 1970s to the forging of a Black women's literary renaissance and the politics of Malcolm X through the lens of Black feminism. She reflects on pivotal moments in recent American history-including the banning of Toni Morrison's Beloved-and celebrates the intellectuals, artists, and personal relationships that have shaped her identity and her work.

Featuring new and unpublished essays along with ones first appearing in outlets such as the New York Times and NPR, In Search of a Beautiful Freedom is a captivating collection that celebrates the work of ""one of the few great intellectuals in our time"" (Cornel West)."

By: Farah Jasmine Griffin (Columbia University)
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 211mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 373g
ISBN: 9780393355772
ISBN 10: 0393355772
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 30 May 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Farah Jasmine Griffin is professor of African American and African diaspora studies and English and comparative literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Read Until You Understand, among other works. Recipient of a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship, she lives in New York.

Reviews for In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays

Scholarship and memoir meld in a stimulating collection.-- Kirkus Reviews Powerful...Griffin is consistently incisive and her arguments deeply nuanced. This serves as a testament to the lucidity of Griffin's stimulating oeuvre.-- Publishers Weekly Farah Jasmine Griffin's gorgeous essays reveal the genius, resistance, and freedom dreams of Black artists. Her insights give us hope; her words are endless beauty.--Salamishah Tillet, activist, scholar, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism Writer, teacher, activist, visionary, Farah Jasmine Griffin, our greatest Black feminist listener, weaves together a symphony of trenchant and pathbreaking meditations on the exquisite and transformative power of Black music, literature, visual art, film, politics and cultural theory in this singular collection of essays. In Search of a Beautiful Freedom is stirring and lyrical pedagogy in motion. Griffin's art of the essay is both a combination of dazzling prose and galvanizing, ethical wisdom. Rapturous, formidable, an instant classic.--Daphne Brooks, author of Liner Notes for the Revolution