Black Utopias - Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds (Hardcover)

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
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-4780-1054-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	1-4780-1054-1
Barcode:	9781478010548

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