From Kara Walker’s hellscape antebellum silhouettes to Paul
Beatty’s bizarre twist on slavery in The Sellout and from Colson
Whitehead’s literal Underground Railroad to Jordan Peele’s
body-snatching Get Out, this volume offers commentary on
contemporary artistic works that present, like musical deep cuts,
some challenging “alternate takes” on American slavery. These
artists deliberately confront and negotiate the psychic and
representational legacies of slavery to imagine possibilities and
change. The essays in this volume explore the conceptions of
freedom and blackness that undergird these narratives, critically
examining how artists growing up in the post–Civil Rights era
have nuanced slavery in a way that is distinctly different from the
first wave of neo-slave narratives that emerged from the Civil
Rights and Black Power Movements. Slavery and the Post-Black
Imagination positions post-blackness as a productive category of
analysis that brings into sharp focus recent developments in black
cultural productions across various media. These ten essays
investigate how millennial black cultural productions trouble
long-held notions of blackness by challenging limiting scripts.
They interrogate political as well as formal interventions into
established discourses to demonstrate how explorations of black
identities frequently go hand in hand with the purposeful
refiguring of slavery’s prevailing tropes, narratives, and
images. A V Ethel Willis White Book
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