I will argue that political, religious and artistic discourses were appropriated and interlocked by different agents in order to achieve their respective objectives. ... Malcolm X had quite successfully appropriated the religious discourse of Islam and instrumentalized it to political ends. ... Here again we find the method of inversion, as "incarcerated people were central to the revolutionary aims of the Black Arts movement both in the works they wrote and in the symbol they provided of imprisonment in a radically oppressive society" (Borstelmann 2011: 101). ...

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