Posthuman Blackness and the Black female imagination

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Label

Posthuman Blackness and the Black female imagination

Statement of responsibility

Kristen Lillvis

Creator

• Lillvis, Kristen,

Author

• Lillvis, Kristen,

Subject

• African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 21st century
• American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
• American literature -- African American authors | History and criticism
• American literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
• Future, The, in literature
• Performing arts -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Performing arts -- United States -- History -- 21st century
• Electronic books
• African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination 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 Monè. 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

Member of

• hoopla (Digital media service)

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

810.9/928708996073

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult