Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions Frederick Rhonda D.
Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions Frederick Rhonda D. Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions is an interdisciplinary study of…
Specifikacia Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions Frederick Rhonda D.
Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions Frederick Rhonda D.
Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions is an interdisciplinary study of blackness in genre literature of the Americas. This blackness amazes because it refuses the limits of anti-blackness. The "fantastical" in fantastical blackness is conceived by an unrestrained imagination because it lives, despite every attempt at annihilation.
Mystery, romance, fantasy, mixed-genre, and science fictions' unrestrained imaginings profoundly communicate this quality of blackness, specifically here through the work of Barbara Neely, Colson Whitehead, Nalo Hopkinson, and Colin Channer. As put to work in this project, fantastical blackness is an ethical praxis that centers black self-knowledge as a point of departure rather than as a reaction to threatening or diminishing dominant narratives. When black writers center this expressive quality, they make