Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination / edited by Bertram D. Ashe and Ilka Saal.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Ashe, Bertram D., 1959- editor.
• Saal, Ilka, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• African Americans--Social conditions.
• American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
• Race in literature.
• Race in motion pictures.
• Slavery in literature.
• Slavery in mass media.
• Slavery in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 238 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Seattle, Washington : University of Washington Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination brings the provocative category of post-blackness to bear on the past 30 years of artistic exploration into the afterlife of slavery as it continues to manifest in the United States. The selected essays cut across a broad spectrum of artistic media and genres -- including prose fiction, the graphic novel, verse, drama, film, TV, and music -- to capture the ubiquity and vibrancy of the post-black imagination in contemporary African American culture. They interrogate political, as well as formal, interventions into established discourses of slavery and black identities, to demonstrate how interrogations of black identities frequently goes hand in hand with the purposeful refiguration of slavery's prevailing tropes, narratives, and images. Taken altogether, this collection positions "post-blackness" as a valid and productive category of analysis that brings recent developments in African American cultural productions across variousmedia into sharp focus"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

• The Blackest Blackness: Slavery and the Satire of Kara Walker / Derek Conrad Murray
• Three-Fifths of a Black Life Matters Too: Four Neo-Slave Novels from the Year 'Post-Racial' Definitively Stopped Being a Thing / Derek C. Maus
• Whispering Racism in a Post-Racial World: Slavery and Postblackness in Paul Beatty's The Sellout / Cameron Leader-Picone
• Getting Graphic with Kindred: The Neo-Slave Narrative of the Black Lives Matter Movement / Mollie A. Godfrey
• "Stay Woke:" Post-Black Filmmaking and the Afterlife of Slavery in Jordan Peele's Get Out / Kimberly Nichele Brown
• The Song: Living with "Dixie" and the "Coon Space" of Post-Blackness / Chenjerai Kumanyika, Jack Hitt, and Chris Neary, with an introduction by Bertram D. Ashe
• Performing Slavery at the Turn of the Millennium: Stereotypes, Affect, and Theatricality in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Neighbors and Young Jean Lee's The Shipment / Ilka Saal
• Thylias Moss's Slave Moth: Liberatory Verse Narrative and Performance Art / Malin Pereira
• Plantation Memories: Cheryl Dunye's Representation of a Representation of American Slavery in The Watermelon Woman / Bertram D. Ashe
• "An Audience is a Mob on its Butt": Interview with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins /Bertram D. Ashe and Ilka Saal.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on print version record.
• Includes index.

ISBN:

• 9780295746654
• 0295746653

OCLC:

1170757213