Isaiah Matthew Wooden is an assistant professor of theater at Swarthmore College. He is a coeditor of Tarell Alvin McCraney: Theater, Performance, and Collaboration (Northwestern University Press).

"Isaiah Wooden's interdisciplinary approach - examining theater, visual art, and film - distinguishes it from other recent books on the topic of Black aesthetics and temporality. Reclaiming Time will join a growing body of work on Black artistic production and the notion of time. A meticulously researched and compellingly argued book, Wooden thoughtfully and thoroughly argues that contemporary Black expressive culture continues to tell us something about the way Black people enact agency over their lives by resisting dominant categories and uses of time." - E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University "Reclaiming Time provides fresh insight into the key concepts of reclamation and temporality at the intersection of theater and performance studies. Mining the unique quality of culture to consider how artists offer alternative temporalities that mitigate the impacts of white supremacy, Isaiah Wooden responds to the question of what other worlds are possible outside the regulatory framework of Western standard time. With artful analysis and engagement, this book brings to bear a new set of future possibilities." - Soyica Colbert, Georgetown University

• Preface: Loss and the Time of Blackness Introduction: Time Is for White People: Or Reclaiming Time in Contemporary Black Expressive Culture Chapter Nation Time, Then and Again: Eisa Davis and Tanya Hamilton's Black Power Nostalgia Chapter 2 Defamiliarized Pasts and Distant Presents: Robert O'Hara and Tarell Alvin McCraney's Black Queer Temporal Interventions Chapter 3 The Art of Black Endurance: Jefferson Pinder's Time-Sensitive Performances Chapter 4 Black Life in the Wake of Deindustrialization: LaToya Ruby Frazier's Photographic Time Postscript: Visualizing Blackness in the Future Tense Acknolwedgements Notes Bibliography Index

Isaiah Matthew Wooden is an assistant professor of theater at Swarthmore College. He is a coeditor of Tarell Alvin McCraney: Theater, Performance, and Collaboration (Northwestern University Press).

"Isaiah Wooden's interdisciplinary approach - examining theater, visual art, and film - distinguishes it from other recent books on the topic of Black aesthetics and temporality. Reclaiming Time will join a growing body of work on Black artistic production and the notion of time. A meticulously researched and compellingly argued book, Wooden thoughtfully and thoroughly argues that contemporary Black expressive culture continues to tell us something about the way Black people enact agency over their lives by resisting dominant categories and uses of time." - E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University "Reclaiming Time provides fresh insight into the key concepts of reclamation and temporality at the intersection of theater and performance studies. Mining the unique quality of culture to consider how artists offer alternative temporalities that mitigate the impacts of white supremacy, Isaiah Wooden responds to the question of what other worlds are possible outside the regulatory framework of Western standard time. With artful analysis and engagement, this book brings to bear a new set of future possibilities." - Soyica Colbert, Georgetown University

• Preface: Loss and the Time of Blackness Introduction: Time Is for White People: Or Reclaiming Time in Contemporary Black Expressive Culture Chapter Nation Time, Then and Again: Eisa Davis and Tanya Hamilton's Black Power Nostalgia Chapter 2 Defamiliarized Pasts and Distant Presents: Robert O'Hara and Tarell Alvin McCraney's Black Queer Temporal Interventions Chapter 3 The Art of Black Endurance: Jefferson Pinder's Time-Sensitive Performances Chapter 4 Black Life in the Wake of Deindustrialization: LaToya Ruby Frazier's Photographic Time Postscript: Visualizing Blackness in the Future Tense Acknolwedgements Notes Bibliography Index

Isaiah Matthew Wooden is an assistant professor of theater at Swarthmore College. He is a coeditor of Tarell Alvin McCraney: Theater, Performance, and Collaboration (Northwestern University Press).

"Isaiah Wooden's interdisciplinary approach - examining theater, visual art, and film - distinguishes it from other recent books on the topic of Black aesthetics and temporality. Reclaiming Time will join a growing body of work on Black artistic production and the notion of time. A meticulously researched and compellingly argued book, Wooden thoughtfully and thoroughly argues that contemporary Black expressive culture continues to tell us something about the way Black people enact agency over their lives by resisting dominant categories and uses of time." - E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University "Reclaiming Time provides fresh insight into the key concepts of reclamation and temporality at the intersection of theater and performance studies. Mining the unique quality of culture to consider how artists offer alternative temporalities that mitigate the impacts of white supremacy, Isaiah Wooden responds to the question of what other worlds are possible outside the regulatory framework of Western standard time. With artful analysis and engagement, this book brings to bear a new set of future possibilities." - Soyica Colbert, Georgetown University

• Preface: Loss and the Time of Blackness Introduction: Time Is for White People: Or Reclaiming Time in Contemporary Black Expressive Culture Chapter Nation Time, Then and Again: Eisa Davis and Tanya Hamilton's Black Power Nostalgia Chapter 2 Defamiliarized Pasts and Distant Presents: Robert O'Hara and Tarell Alvin McCraney's Black Queer Temporal Interventions Chapter 3 The Art of Black Endurance: Jefferson Pinder's Time-Sensitive Performances Chapter 4 Black Life in the Wake of Deindustrialization: LaToya Ruby Frazier's Photographic Time Postscript: Visualizing Blackness in the Future Tense Acknolwedgements Notes Bibliography Index