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Love and abolition : the social life of Black queer performance / Alison Rose Reed.
Van Pelt Library HV9276.5 .R44 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reed, Alison Rose, author.
- Series:
- Black performance and cultural criticism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alternatives to imprisonment.
- Prison abolition movements.
- Love.
- Queer theory.
- African American prisoners--Social conditions.
- African American prisoners.
- Performing arts--Social aspects.
- Performing arts.
- Radicalism.
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--African American authors.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 260 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "Examines queer performance and affective response in the Black radical tradition-using work by James Baldwin, Ntozake Shange, Sharon Bridgforth, and vanessa german-to demonstrate how love animates the contemporary prison abolition movement"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Listening for Emmett Till: James Baldwin, Laurie Carlos, and Black Love as Survival
- ch. 2 Transforming Harm into Healing: Ntozake Shange and the Combahee River Collective
- ch. 3 Concrete Utopias: Activating Spirit in the Performance Worlds of Sharon Bridgforth and Josefina Baez
- ch. 4 Love in the Streets: Stephanie Leigh Batiste, vanessa german, and Vigils for State Violence
- ch. 5 Contraband Love: Humanities Behind Bars and Abolition Pedagogy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-250) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814215067
- 0814215068
- 9780814258194
- 0814258190
- OCLC:
- 1261306753
- Publisher Number:
- 99990034978
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