Posthuman Blackness and the Black female imagination /

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"[This work] examines the future-oriented visions of black subjectivity in works by contemporary black women writers, filmmakers, and musicians, including Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, Julie Dash, and Janelle Monaáe. In this innovative study, Kristen Lillvis supplements historically situated...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lillvis, Kristen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]
Temas:
1900-2099
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Performing arts > United States > History > 21st century.
Performing arts > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 21st century.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Future, The, in literature.
Écrits de femmes américains > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Arts du spectacle > États-Unis > Histoire > 21e siècle.
Arts du spectacle > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Vie intellectuelle > 21e siècle.
Noirs américains > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
Futur dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Science Fiction & Fantasy.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
American literature.
American literature > African American authors.
American literature > Women authors.
Performing arts.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"[This work] examines the future-oriented visions of black subjectivity in works by contemporary black women writers, filmmakers, and musicians, including Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, Julie Dash, and Janelle Monaáe. In this innovative study, Kristen Lillvis supplements historically situated conceptions of blackness with imaginative projections of black futures. This theoretical approach allows her to acknowledge the importance of history without positing a purely historical origin for black identities. The authors considered in this book set their stories in the past yet use their characters, particularly women characters, to show how the potential inherent in the future can inspire black authority and resistance. Lillvis introduces the term 'posthuman blackness' to describe the empowered subjectivities black women and men develop through their simultaneous existence within past, present, and future temporalities. This project draws on posthuman theory - an area of study that examines the disrupted unities between biology and technology, the self and the outer world, and, most important for this project, history and potentiality - in its readings of a variety of imaginative works, including works of historical fiction such as Gayl Jones's Corregidora and Morrison's Beloved. Reading neo-slave narratives through posthuman theory reveals black identity and culture as temporally flexible, based in the potential of what is to come and the history of what has occurred."--Provided by publisher
Descripción Física:1 online resource (viii, 138 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780820351230
0820351237

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