Title Black madness : mad Blackness / Therí Alyce Pickens

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2019 ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 155 pages) Contents Making Black madness -- A mad Black thang -- Abandoning the "human"? -- Not making meaning, not making since (the end of time) Summary In 'Black Madness :: Mad Blackness' Theri Alyce Pickens rethinks the relationship between Blackness and disability, unsettling the common theorization that they are mutually constitutive. Pickens shows how Black speculative and science fiction authors such as Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, and Tananarive Due craft new worlds that reimagine the intersection of Blackness and madness. These creative writer-theorists formulate new parameters for thinking through Blackness and madness. Pickens considers Butler's 'Fledgling' as an archive of Black madness that demonstrates how race and ability shape subjectivity while constructing the building blocks for antiracist and anti-ableist futures. She examines how Hopkinson's 'Midnight Robber' theorizes mad Blackness and how Due's 'African Immortals' series contest dominant definitions of the human. The theorizations of race and disability that emerge from these works, Pickens demonstrates, challenge the paradigms of subjectivity that white supremacy and ableism enforce, thereby pointing to the potential for new forms of radical politics Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2020. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 20, 2020) Subject Minority people with disabilities -- United States African Americans with disabilities -- United States People with disabilities -- United States. Discrimination against people with disabilities -- United States American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism Science fiction, American -- History and criticism Race in literature. People with disabilities in literature. African Americans -- Study and teaching. Disability studies -- United States POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American African Americans -- Study and teaching African Americans with disabilities American fiction -- African American authors Disability studies Discrimination against people with disabilities Minority people with disabilities People with disabilities People with disabilities in literature Race in literature Science fiction, American United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2018056886 ISBN 9781478005506 1478005505

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