Afro-fabulations : the queer drama of Black life / Tavia Nyong'o.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ochieng' Nyongó, Tavia Amolo, author.

Series:

Sexual cultures.

Sexual cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality in the theater.

Gay people in the performing arts.

American drama--African American authors.

African Americans in the performing arts.

Homosexuality in the theater--United States.

Gay people in the performing arts--United States.

American drama--African American authors--History and criticism.

American drama.

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2019].

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Argues for a conception of black cultural life that exceeds post-blackness and conditions of loss In Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life, cultural critic and historian Tavia Nyong'o surveys the conditions of contemporary black artistic production in the era of post-blackness. Moving fluidly between the insurgent art of the 1960's and the intersectional activism of the present day, Afro-Fabulations challenges genealogies of blackness that ignore its creative capacity to exceed conditions of traumatic loss, social death, and archival erasure. If black survival in an anti-black world often feels like a race against time, Afro-Fabulations looks to the modes of memory and imagination through which a queer and black polytemporality is invented and sustained. Moving past the antirelational debates in queer theory, Nyong'o posits queerness as "angular sociality," drawing upon queer of color critique in order to name the gate and rhythm of black social life as it moves in and out of step with itself. He takes up a broad range of sites of analysis, from speculative fiction to performance art, from artificial intelligence to Blaxploitation cinema. Reading the archive of violence and trauma against the grain, Afro-Fabulations summons the poetic powers of queer world-making that have always been immanent to the fight and play of black life

Contents:

Introduction: a race against time?

Critical shade

Crushed black

Brer soul and the mythic being

Deep time, dark time

Little monsters

Womb of shadows

Habeas ficta

Chore and choice

Conclusion: for a critical poetics of Afro-fabulation.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4798-0638-2

OCLC:

1057550107