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Black utopias : speculative life and the music of other worlds /

"In Black Utopias Jayna Brown looks to utopia as a way of exploring new states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture. Brown uses the lives and work of Black women mystics Sojourner Truth and Rebecca Cox Jackson, musicians Alice Coltrane and Sun Ra, and speculative fiction writers Samu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, Jayna, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Ecstasy. Along the Psychic Highway : Black Women Mystics and Utopias of the Ecstatic ; Lovely Sky Boat : Alice Coltrane and the Metaphysics of Sound
  • Part II. Evolution. Our Place is Among the Stars : Octavia E. Butler and the Preservation of Species ; Speculative Life : Utopia Without the Human
  • Part III. Sense and Matter. In the Realm of the Senses : Heterotopias of Subjectivity, Desire, and Discourse ; The Freedom Not to Be : Sun Ra's Alternative Ontology.