Black Apocalypse (häftad)
Format
Häftad (Trade paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Serie
American Studies Now Critical Histories of the Present (del 16)
Antal sidor
136
Utgivningsdatum
2025-02-04
Förlag
University of California Press
Dimensioner
208 x 136 x 16 mm
Vikt
159 g
ISBN
9780520388482

Black Apocalypse

Afrofuturism at the End of the World

Häftad,  Engelska, 2025-02-04
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Juxtaposing the world-building of afrofuturism and the world-negating of afropessimism to show how both movements have offered us critical resources of hope. Science fiction imagines aliens and global crises as world-unifying events, both a threat and promise for the future. Black Apocalypse is an introduction to the past and present of black engagement with speculative futures. From Octavia Butler to W.E.B. Du Bois to Sun Ra, Tavia Nyong'o shows that the end of the world is crucial to afrofuturism and reframes the binary of afropessimism and afrofuturism to explore their similarities. Interweaving black trans, queer, and feminist theories, Nyong'o examines the social, technological, and existential threats facing our species and reflects on shifting anxieties and hopes for the future. Exploring the apocalypse in movies, art, literature, and music, this book considers the endless afterlives of slavery and inequality and revives the radical black imagination to envision the future of blackness. Black Apocalypse argues that black aesthetics take us to the edge of this world and into the next.
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Tavia Nyong'o is the author of The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory and Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life. He is a professor of performance studies at Yale University and a curator at the Park Avenue Armory.