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Title: Black Utopias
Condition: New
EAN: 9781478011675
ISBN: 9781478011675
Publisher: Duke University Press
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 26/02/2021
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Weight: 318g
Author: Jayna Brown
Language: English
Subtitle: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds
ISBN-10: 147801167X
Description: In Black Utopias Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as a way of exploring alternative states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture. Musical, literary, and mystic practices become utopian enclaves in which Black people engage in modes of creative worldmaking. Brown explores the lives and work of Black women mystics Sojourner Truth and Rebecca Cox Jackson, musicians Alice Coltrane and Sun Ra, and the work of speculative fiction writers Samuel Delany and Octavia Butler as they decenter and destabilize the human, radically refusing liberal humanist ideas of subjectivity and species. Brown demonstrates that engaging in utopian practices Black subjects imagine and manifest new genres of existence and forms of collectivity. For Brown, utopia consists of those moments in the here and now when those excluded from the category human jump into other onto-epistemological realms. Black people—untethered from the hope of rights, recognition, or redress—celebrate themselves as elements in a cosmic effluvium.
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Gender Sex & Relationships, Social Sciences, History
Release Year: 2021

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