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.
General
| Imprint: |
Duke University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
February 2021 |
| First published: |
2021 |
| Authors: |
Jayna Brown
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
224 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4780-1167-5 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
1-4780-1167-X |
| Barcode: |
9781478011675 |
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