Schmidt, Christian. Postblack Aesthetics: The Freedom to be Black in Contemporary African American Fiction. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017 (Volume 256 of American Studies). ISBN 9783825374914. €45 (Hardback). 303pp. The freedom of black writers not to have to discuss and depict blackness as the only story to tell and celebrate: this is the trope permeating Christian Schmidt’s … Continue reading Review: Christian Schmidt, Postblack Aesthetics: The Freedom to be Black in Contemporary African American Fiction.