Antimanifesto Poetics: Black Avant-Gardism's Queer Critique of the Manifesto Genre

What does experimental black art demand of us? This presentation offers a critical lens for thinking about the relationships between black avant-gardist art, abolitionist politics, and the genre of art manifestos. Bryant Brown Jr. (PhD in American Studies from Brown University) is the Cheryl A. Wall Postdoctoral Associate in African American and African Diaspora Literary Studies in the English Department at Rutgers-New Brunswick. His research tarries the interstices of black cultural studies, aesthetic theory, and queer theory.