Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those films are memorialized in Tarantino's own. "People ask if my love of movies can be too much," he says. "What annoys me about the question is the snobbery; it treats movies like a bastard art form. Could a novelist ever read too many books, or a musician listen to too much music? Well, I totally love movies...
Consider the achievements since 1993 alone, when Bill Clinton invited Maya Angelou to be the first poet since Robert Frost to read an original work at a presidential Inauguration. George C. Wolfe won a Tony Award for his direction of Angels in America. Novelist Toni Morrison became the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Rita Dove was appointed the country's first black poet laureate. Two works inspired by the Rodney King affair -- 56 Blows, a symphony by Alvin Singleton, and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, a one- woman docudrama by playwright and performer Anna Deavere Smith...
...cites as models not only Miles Davis but also Igor Stravinsky. "It's limiting to be called just an African-American composer," he says. "There's no reason to limit yourself in any way." This attitude particularly marks many of the youngest and brashest creators, labeled "cultural mulattoes" by novelist Trey Ellis. Largely reared in integrated suburbs and educated at prestigious colleges and universities, they lay claim to the cultural traditions of both blacks and whites...
Young or old, today's African-American artists increasingly strike themes that are racially and culturally universal. Some emphasize age, gender or sexual orientation over ethnicity. Others, like Morrison and novelist Charles Johnson, whose Middle Passage won the National Book Award for fiction in 1990, explore the black experience in America. Still others, such as Wolfe, choreographer David Rousseve and writer Darius James (Negrophobia: An Urban Parable), dissect racial stereotypes, while those like choreographer Ralph Lemon and sculptor Martin Puryear reflect no identifiable racial content at all. Rita Dove summarizes the trend best when she says: "There are times when...
...American novelist Tom Morrison won the Nobel Prize for Literature...