Challenges, Influences, Obsessions

i can't help but fall back on the sixties. thankfully, i wasn't around to experience it and perhaps what i do know about that period in history is less knowledge than my own renditions of nuances, sentiments, events, people, thinking. but i'm a 90's child; i've always wrestled for the clarity to render what it was like to grow up then.

aside from nostalgia (joke), i'd like to prompt the following: is theory as subversive as it seems? a bit nihilistic maybe? all the discourse surrounding antifoundationalism. but really how can literature exist separatelty from the western tradition. that is my question, a vague one i admit. the negritude movement in the 30's springs to mind; of course critics argued the validity of a new identity, a collective one, if its political aims were expressed through a western form, the novel or poetry.

here's the influence part: i couldn't turn on the tv growing up and see, let's say, malcolm x challenging the country's makeup BUT i could turn on the tv and see a n.w.a. music video. sounds funny but follow me. there's a trickle down effect (through history) of what i was getting fed by the overriding political agendas and of course, the interpolation of those agendas constantly colliding. i'm not quoting anyone, but you can call me out if you want.

so choose your medium wisely (joke). the black arts movement of the 60's is what i'm calling into play. a new identity meant a new aesthetic as means to do so. a dewesternization of the form. is that even possible?