Black Utopia

Within the history of African-American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, black utopian artists and thinkers offer powerful visions of ways of being that are built on radical concepts of justice and freedom. Here, Zamalin offers a groundbreaking examination of African-American visions of social transformation and their counterutopian counterparts.

Sommario

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Utopia and Black American Thought
1. Martin Delany's Experiment in Escape
2. Turn-of-the-Century Black Literary Utopianism
3. W. E. B. Du Bois's World of Utopian Intimacy
4. George S. Schuyler, Irony, and Utopia
5. Richard Wright's Black Power and Anticolonial Antiutopianism
6. Sun Ra and Cosmic Blackness
7. Samuel Delany and the Ambiguity of Utopia
8. Octavia Butler and the Politics of Utopian Transcendence
Conclusion: Black Utopia and the Contemporary Political Imagination
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Info autore

Alex Zamalin

Riassunto

Alex Zamalin offers a groundbreaking examination of African American visions of utopia and their counterutopian counterparts. Considering figures linked to racial separatism, postracialism, anticolonialism, Pan-Africanism, and Afrofuturism, he argues that the black utopian tradition continues to challenge American political thought and culture.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Alex Zamalin, Zamalin Alex
• Editore: Columbia University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.08.2019
• EAN: 9780231187411
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18741-1
• Pagine: 192
• Dimensioni: 140 mm x 216 mm x 15 mm
• Categorie: Saggistica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; USA, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Nationalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Utopias, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, History of the Americas, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, HISTORY / African American & Black, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, African american and black literary criticism