In the Black Fantastic

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, this is an expressive exploration of Black popular culture at its most wildly imaginative, artistically ambitious and politically urgent. In the Black Fantastic assembles art and imagery from across the African diaspora that embraces ideas of the mythic and the speculative. Neither Afrofuturism nor Magic Realism, but inhabiting its own universe, In the Black Fantastic brings to life a cultural movement that conjures otherworldly visions out of the everyday Black experience – and beyond – looking at how speculative fictions in Black art and culture are boldly reimagining perspectives on race, gender, identity and the body in the 21st century. Transcending time, space and genre to span art, design, fashion architecture, film, literature and popular culture from African myth to future fantasies and beyond, this vital, timely and compelling publication is an expressive exploration of Black popular culture at its most wildly imaginative, artistically ambitious and politically urgent.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-06-09
Mått195 x 250 x 29 mm
Vikt1 310 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagThames & Hudson Ltd
ISBN9780500024621

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Ekow Eshun is a writer, curator and journalist based in London, and former director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. His previous books include Black Gold of the Sun and Africa State of Mind, the latter published by Thames & Hudson in 2020. Michelle D. Commander is the associate director of New York’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She is the author of Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic (2017). Kameelah L. Martin is the director of the African American Studies Program and professor of African American Studies and English at the College of Charleston, North Carolina.

Foreword by Ralph Rugoff, Director of The Hayward GalleryIntroduction: The Black FantasticChapter 1 Invocation: A Summoning of SpiritsExtract 1: Old Slavery Seen Through ModernEyes: Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred and HaileGerima’s Sankofa, by Adriano EliaAfrican Cosmologies and Black Feminism, by Kameelah MartinChapter 2 Migration: Journeys Across Sea and SpaceExtract 2: Afronauts: Race in Space, by Ian BourlandThe Space for Race, by Michelle CommanderChapter 3 Liberation: Dreams of FreedomExtract 3: Afrofutures: Africa and the Aesthetics of Black Revolution, by Tobias WoffordFilm, Play and Reading Lists