ISBN:
9780814257777
,
0814257771
,
9780814214596
,
0814214592
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 205 Seiten
,
23 cm
Series Statement:
New suns: race, gender, and sexuality in the speculative
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Murillo, John, III Impossible stories
DDC:
813/.5409896073
Keywords:
American literature African American authors
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History and criticism
;
Racism
;
African Americans Race identity
;
African Americans Intellectual life
;
Race relations in literature
;
Space and time in literature
;
African Americans ; Intellectual life
;
African Americans ; Race identity
;
American literature ; African American authors
;
Race relations in literature
;
Racism
;
Space and time in literature
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
USA
;
Schwarze
;
Literatur
;
Ethnische Identität
;
Rassismus
;
Raum
;
Zeit
Abstract:
First arrangement: Black (in) time: untimely Blackness. Prelude: Untimely fragments and the beginnings of a reflection ; Black holes and generations ; Untime -- Second arrangement: The untimely works and worlds of impossible stories. Prelude: Trauma work ; Of shadows and diamonds ; Elliptical in love dot dot dot -- Third arrangement; Transmissions from out of nowhere. Prelude: No place, not any place, out of place ; Nowheresville ; Stanky shrines and hollow bastions -- Outro: Out of time in the middle of nowhere.
Abstract:
"Merging theory and praxis, Murillo engages with Gayl Jones's Corregidora, Octavia Butler's Kindred, Toni Morrison's Beloved, Kiese Laymon's Long Division, Dionne Brand's A Map to the Door of No Return, and Paul Beatty's The Sellout to show how Afro-pessimism offers new ways to think about anti-Black racism and practice Black creativity"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-199) and index
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