Slavery and the post-black imagination

Slavery and the post-black imagination / edited by Bertram D. Ashe and Ilka Saal.

"Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination brings the provocative category of post-blackness to bear on the past 30 years of artistic exploration into the afterlife of slavery as it continues to manifest in the United States. The selected essays cut across a broad spectrum of artistic media and ge...

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Main Author: Ashe, Bertram D., 1959- (Author)
Other Authors: Saal, Ilka (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020]
Subjects:
2000-2099
Slavery in literature.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Slavery in mass media.
Slavery in mass media
American literature > African American authors
American literature
African Americans > Social conditions
Race in literature
Race in motion pictures
Slavery in literature
Slavery in motion pictures
Electronic books.
e-books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Livres numériques.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Blackest Blackness: Slavery and the Satire of Kara Walker / Derek Conrad Murray
  • Three-Fifths of a Black Life Matters Too: Four Neo-Slave Novels from the Year 'Post-Racial' Definitively Stopped Being a Thing / Derek C. Maus
  • Whispering Racism in a Post-Racial World: Slavery and Postblackness in Paul Beatty's The Sellout / Cameron Leader-Picone
  • Getting Graphic with Kindred: The Neo-Slave Narrative of the Black Lives Matter Movement / Mollie A. Godfrey
  • "Stay Woke:" Post-Black Filmmaking and the Afterlife of Slavery in Jordan Peele's Get Out / Kimberly Nichele Brown
  • The Song: Living with "Dixie" and the "Coon Space" of Post-Blackness / Chenjerai Kumanyika, Jack Hitt, and Chris Neary, with an introduction by Bertram D. Ashe
  • Performing Slavery at the Turn of the Millennium: Stereotypes, Affect, and Theatricality in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Neighbors and Young Jean Lee's The Shipment / Ilka Saal
  • Thylias Moss's Slave Moth: Liberatory Verse Narrative and Performance Art / Malin Pereira
  • Plantation Memories: Cheryl Dunye's Representation of a Representation of American Slavery in The Watermelon Woman / Bertram D. Ashe
  • "An Audience is a Mob on its Butt": Interview with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins / Bertram D. Ashe and Ilka Saal.

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