Fugitive time : global aesthetics and the Black beyond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Omelsky, Matthew, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics, Black.

Time in literature.

Time and art.

Aesthetics in literature.

Literature--Black authors.

Literature.

Artists, Black.

Authors, Black.

Utopias in literature.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 267 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"In Fugitive Time, Matthew Omelsky theorizes the embodied experience of time in twentieth- and twenty-first-century black artforms from across the world. Through the lens of time, he charts the sensations and coursing thoughts that accompany desires for freedom as they appear in the work of artists as varied as Toni Morrison, Yvonne Vera, Aimé Césaire, and Issa Samb. "Fugitive time" names a distinct utopian desire directed at the anticipated moment when the body and mind have been unburdened of the violence that has consumed black life globally for centuries, bringing with it a new form of being. Omelsky shows how fugitive time is not about attaining this transcendent release, but instead sustaining the idea of it as an ecstatic social gathering. From the desire for ethereal queer worlds in the Black Audio Film Collective's Twilight City to Sun Ra's transformation of nineteenth-century scientific racism into an insurgent fugitive aesthetic, Omelsky shows how fugitive time evolves and how it remains a dominant form of imagining freedom in global black cultural expression"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Black Beyondness

Toni Morrison's Anachronic Ease

Aimé Césaire, Wifredo Lam and the Aesthetics of Surging Life

Black Audio's Archival Flight

Sun Ra, Issa Samb and the Drapetomaniacal Avant-Garde

Yvonne Vera, NoViolet Bulawayo and the Imminence of Dreaming Air

Fugitive Ether.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781478027508

1478027509

OCLC:

1402219531