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Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination

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AvBertram D. Ashe,Ilka Saal

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Honorable Mention for the 2022 Modern Language Association Prize for an Edited CollectionInterrogates how artists have created new ways to imagine the past of American slaveryFrom Kara Walker’s hellscape antebellum silhouettes to Paul Beatty’s bizarre twist on slavery in The Sellout and from Colson Whitehead’s literal Underground Railroad to Jordan Peele’s body-snatching Get Out, this volume offers commentary on contemporary artistic works that present, like musical deep cuts, some challenging “alternate takes” on American slavery. These artists deliberately confront and negotiate the psychic and representational legacies of slavery to imagine possibilities and change. The essays in this volume explore the conceptions of freedom and blackness that undergird these narratives, critically examining how artists growing up in the post–Civil Rights era have nuanced slavery in a way that is distinctly different from the first wave of neo-slave narratives that emerged from the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements.Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination positions post-blackness as a productive category of analysis that brings into sharp focus recent developments in black cultural productions across various media. These ten essays investigate how millennial black cultural productions trouble long-held notions of blackness by challenging limiting scripts. They interrogate political as well as formal interventions into established discourses to demonstrate how explorations of black identities frequently go hand in hand with the purposeful refiguring of slavery’s prevailing tropes, narratives, and images.A V Ethel Willis White Book

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-01-06
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt499 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSlavery and the Post-Black Imagination
Antal sidor248
FörlagUniversity of Washington Press
ISBN9780295746647
UtmärkelserCommended for MLA Prize for an Edited Collection 2022 (United States)

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Bertram D. Ashe is professor of English and American studies at the University of Richmond and author of Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles. Ilka Saal is professor of American literature at the University of Erfurt, Germany, author of New Deal Theater: The Vernacular Tradition in American Political Theater, and coeditor of Passionate Politics: The Cultural Work of American Melodrama from the Early Republic to the Present. The other contributors are Kimberly Nichele Brown, Mollie A. Godfrey, Jack Hitt, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Cameron Leader-Picone, Derek C. Maus, Derek Conrad Murray, Chris Neary, and Malin Pereira.

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionIlka Saal and Bertram D. Ashe1. The Blackest Blackness: Slavery and the Satire of Kara WalkerDerek Conrad Murray2. Three-Fifths of a Black Life Matters Too: Four Neo-Slave novels from the Year Postracial Definitively Stopped Being a ThingDerek C. Maus3. Whispering Racism in a Postracial World: Slavery and Post-Blackness in Paul Beatty's the SelloutCameron Leader-Picone4. Getting Graphic with Kindred:The Neo-Slave Narrative of the Black Lives Matter MovementMollie Godfrey5. "Stay Woke": Post-Black Filmmaking the Afterlife of Slavery in Jordan Peele's Get OutKimerly Nichele Brown6. The Song: Living with "Dixie" and the "Coon Space" of Post-BlacknessChenjerai Kumanyika, Jack Hitt, and Chris neary, with an introduction by Bertram D. Ashe7. Performing Slavery at the Turn of the Millennium: Stereotypes, Affect, and Theatricality in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Neighbors and Young Jean Lee's The ShipmentIlka saal8. Thylias Moss's Slave Moth: Liberatory Verse Narrative and Performance ArtMalin Pereira9. Plantation Memories: Cheryl Dunye's Representation of a Representation of American Slavery in the Watermelon WomanBertram D. Ashe10. "An Audience Is a Mob on Its Butt": An Interview with Branden Jacobs-JenkinsBertram D. Ashe and Ilka SaalList of ContributorsIndex

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