Title Posthuman Blackness and the Black female imagination / Kristen Lillvis

Published Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2017] ©20

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 138 pages) Contents Temporal liminality in Toni Morrison's Beloved and A mercy -- Posthuman solidarity in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose -- Afrofuturist aesthetics in the works of Erykah Badu, Janelle Monáe, and Gayl Jones -- Posthuman multiple consciousness in Octavia E. Butler's science fiction -- Submarine transversality in texts by Sheree Rene Thomas and Julie Dash Summary "[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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject 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. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Science Fiction & Fantasy. African Americans -- Intellectual life American literature American literature -- African American authors American literature -- Women authors Future, The, in literature Performing arts United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780820351230 0820351237

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