Black Madness :: Mad Blackness - Mad Blackness

Therí Alyce Pickens is the author of New Body Politics: Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States, and editor of Arab American Aesthetics: Literature, Material Culture, Film, and Theatre.

Sommario

Preface or About Face, Giving Face  ix
Introduction. What's Good?  1
Conversation 1. Making Black Madness  23
Conversation 2. A Mad Black Thang  50
Conversation 3. Abandoning the Human?  74
Conversation 4. Not Making Meaning, Not Making Since (The End of Time)  95
Notes  115
Bibliography  135
Index  149

Info autore

Therí Alyce Pickens is the author of New Body Politics: Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States, and editor of Arab American Aesthetics: Literature, Material Culture, Film, and Theatre.

Riassunto

Therí Alyce Pickens examines the speculative and science fiction of Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, and Tananarive Due to rethink the relationship between race and disability, thereby unsettling the common theorization that they are mutually constitutive.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Therf Alyce Pickens, Theri Alyce Pickens, Therí Alyce Pickens
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781478003748
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0374-8
• Pagine: 277
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; Englisch, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Ethnic Studies, Behinderung: soziale Aspekte, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren