Queer Times, Black Futures / Kara Keeling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keeling, Kara, 1971- author.

Series:

Sexual cultures.

NYU scholarship online.

Sexual cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Queer theory.

African Americans in mass media.

African American sexual minorities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 pages).

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"Keeling's "Queer Times, Black Futures" explores the issues of gender and race"-- Provided by publisher.

"Queer Times, Black Futures considers the promises and pitfalls of imagination, technology, futurity, and liberation as they have persisted in and through whiteness. Kara Keeling explores how the speculative fictions of cinema, music, and literature that center black existence provide scenarios wherein we might imagine alternative worlds, queer and otherwise. In doing so, Keeling offers a sustained meditation on contemporary investments in futurity, speculation, and technology, paying particular attention to their significance to queer and black freedom."--Back cover.

Contents:

Another litany for survival

Black futures and the queer times of life : finance, flesh, and the imagination

Interregnum : the unaccountable Bartleby

"It's after the end of the world (don't you know that yet?)" : Afrofuturism and transindividuation

Yet still : queer temporality, black political possibilities, and poetry from the future (of speculative pasts)

Interlude : the sonic Bartleby : the digital regime of the image and musical speech

Black cinema and questions concerning film/media/technology

"Corporate cannibal" : risk, errantry, and imagination in the age of catastrophe

Intercession : the de-American Bartleby: archipelagoes, refusal, and the cosmic

"World galaxy."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Previously issued in print: 2019.

ISBN:

1-4798-4199-4

OCLC:

1089804811