Insists on the importance of embodiment and movement to the
creation of Black sociality Linking African diasporic performance,
disability studies, and movement studies, Falling, Floating,
Flickering approaches disability transnationally by centering
Black, African, and diasporic experiences. By eschewing capital’s
weighted calculus of which bodies hold value, this book centers
alternate morphologies and movement practices that have previously
been dismissed as abnormal or unrecognizable. To move beyond
binaries of ability, Hershini Bhana Young traverses multiple
geohistories and cultural forms stretching from the United States
and the Mediterranean to Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and South Africa,
as well as independent and experimental film, novels, sculptures,
images, dance, performances, and anecdotes. In doing so, she argues
for the importance of differential embodiment and movement to the
creation and survival of Black sociality, and refutes stereotypic
notions of Africa as less progressive than the West in recognizing
the rights of disabled people. Ultimately, this book foregrounds
the engagement of diasporic Africans, who are still reeling from
the violence of colonialism, slavery, poverty, and war, as they
gesture toward a liberatory Black sociality by falling, floating,
and flickering.
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