Afro-Fabulations - The Queer Drama of Black Life Nyong'o TaviaPaperback / softback
Argues for a conception of black cultural life that exceeds post-blackness and conditions of lossIn Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life, cultural critic and historian Tavia Nyong'o surveys…
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Argues for a conception of black cultural life that exceeds post-blackness and conditions of lossIn 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
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