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1 online resource (xiv, 228 pages) |
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Prologue : Revelations in Black ... and Popular -- Introduction -- 1. First : Mystery : Fantastically Black Blanche White : Barbara Neely's Blanche on the Lam -- 2. Second : Urban Romantica : Making Black and Jamaican love : Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain and Romance-ified Diaspora Identities -- 3. Third : Fantasy : Fantastic possibilities : Theorizing national belonging through Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring -- 4. Fourth : Multigenre : Seeing white : Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad -- 5. Fifth : Fantasy, short story : Fantastically Black woman : Nalo Hopkinson's "A Habit of Waste" -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
"Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions is an interdisciplinary study of blackness in genre literature of the Americas. The "fantastical" in fantastical blackness is conceived by an unrestrained imagination because it lives, despite every attempt at annihilation. This blackness amazes because it refuses the limits of anti-blackness. As put to work in this project, fantastical blackness is an ethical praxis that centers black self-knowledge as a point of departure rather than as a reaction to threatening or diminishing dominant narratives. Mystery, romance, fantasy, mixed-genre, and science fictions' unrestrained imaginings profoundly communicate this quality of blackness, specifically here through the work of Barbara Neely, Colson Whitehead, Nalo Hopkinson, and Colin Channer. When black writers center this expressive quality, they make fantastical blackness available to a broad audience that then uses its imaginable vocabularies to reshape extra-literary realities. Ultimately, popular genres' imaginable possibilities offer strategies through which the made up can be made real"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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RHONDA FREDERICK is an associate professor of African and African diaspora studies and English at Boston College in Massachusetts |
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Black people in literature.
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American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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Black people -- Race identity.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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American fiction
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American fiction -- African American authors
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Black people in literature
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Black people -- Race identity
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Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781978818088 |
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1978818084 |
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1978818106 |
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9781978818101 |
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