Mad/Utopian/Prehistoric: Black Powers of Speculation
Abstract Black life in the modern world makes incisive demands on the cultural politics of imaginative fiction as well as social movement rhetoric. Recent scholarship supplements the ongoing efflorescence of Afrofuturist art by reconstructing the history of speculative, utopian, and cautionary tales...
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croxfordunivpr:10.1093/alh/ajac063 2023-05-15T18:11:55+02:00 Mad/Utopian/Prehistoric: Black Powers of Speculation Carrington, André 2022 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajac063 https://academic.oup.com/alh/article-pdf/34/2/606/43752159/ajac063.pdf en eng Oxford University Press (OUP) https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model American Literary History volume 34, issue 2, page 606-614 ISSN 0896-7148 1468-4365 Literature and Literary Theory History Cultural Studies journal-article 2022 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajac063 2022-06-16T13:01:45Z Abstract Black life in the modern world makes incisive demands on the cultural politics of imaginative fiction as well as social movement rhetoric. Recent scholarship supplements the ongoing efflorescence of Afrofuturist art by reconstructing the history of speculative, utopian, and cautionary tales in Black writing. Isiah Lavender’s Afrofuturism Rising and Alex Zamalin’s Black Utopia join a growing body of intellectual history prepared for the task of historicizing fantastic Black aesthetics. Sami Schalk’s more contemporary intervention, Bodyminds Reimagined, demonstrates the integral value of Black women’s speculative fiction to rethinking the role of dis/ability—conspicuously including the radical difference signified by “madness”—in the panoply of power relations that stand to be transformed by Black radical thought in action. Article in Journal/Newspaper sami sami Oxford University Press (via Crossref) American Literary History 34 2 606 614 |
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Abstract Black life in the modern world makes incisive demands on the cultural politics of imaginative fiction as well as social movement rhetoric. Recent scholarship supplements the ongoing efflorescence of Afrofuturist art by reconstructing the history of speculative, utopian, and cautionary tales in Black writing. Isiah Lavender’s Afrofuturism Rising and Alex Zamalin’s Black Utopia join a growing body of intellectual history prepared for the task of historicizing fantastic Black aesthetics. Sami Schalk’s more contemporary intervention, Bodyminds Reimagined, demonstrates the integral value of Black women’s speculative fiction to rethinking the role of dis/ability—conspicuously including the radical difference signified by “madness”—in the panoply of power relations that stand to be transformed by Black radical thought in action. |
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