The play was written in a London of bubonic plague, cheap death, religious burnings, torture; a London given over to the deal: the buy/sell transactions of a risingly brutal capitalism dealing in information through spies and informers, flesh through rampantly exploitative prostitution, liberty and freedom through indentures and slavery.
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Painting was just one, though the most visible, witness to the perceptual change that spread through every form – reflecting not just a risingly confident avant garde, but the new views of consciousness and perception, the new apocalyptic awareness of modernity and universal change, that was brought by an age massing technology, new social conflict, increasing urbanisation, and the growing systematisation of life.
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An experimental, risingly postmodern, gallery of fiction for which Invisible Man always acted as the beacon, equally made its bow, notably William Demby’s cubist The Catacombs (1965), William Melvin Kelley’s fantasist picture of white suburbia and Harlem, dem (1967), John Wideman’s peregrinatory Hurry Home (1970) and Leon Forrest’s dream-memoir of black Chicago, There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden (1973).
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