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Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World Volume 16

Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World Volume 16 - Paperback

by Tavia Nyong'o
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Availability:In StockContributor:Tavia Nyong'oSeries:American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the PresentPublish date:02/04/25Pages:136
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520388482ISBN-10:520388488UPC:9780520388482Book Category:Social Science, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Future Studies, Science Fiction & FantasyBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.19 x 5.35 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SC9T65K7DB
Juxtaposing the world-building of afrofuturism and the world-negating of afropessimism to show how both movements have offered us critical resources of hope.

Science fiction imagines aliens and global crises as world-unifying events, both a threat and promise for the future. Black Apocalypse is an introduction to the past and present of black engagement with speculative futures. From Octavia Butler to W.E.B. Du Bois to Sun Ra, Tavia Nyong'o shows that the end of the world is crucial to afrofuturism and reframes the binary of afropessimism and afrofuturism to explore their similarities.

Interweaving black trans, queer, and feminist theories, Nyong'o examines the social, technological, and existential threats facing our species and reflects on shifting anxieties and hopes for the future. Exploring the apocalypse in movies, art, literature, and music, this book considers the endless afterlives of slavery and inequality and revives the radical black imagination to envision the future of blackness. Black Apocalypse argues that black aesthetics take us to the edge of this world and into the next.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520388482ISBN-10:520388488UPC:9780520388482Book Category:Social Science, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Future Studies, Science Fiction & FantasyBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.19 x 5.35 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SC9T65K7DB
Tavia Nyong'o is the author of The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory and Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life. He is a professor of performance studies at Yale University and a curator at the Park Avenue Armory.
Publisher: University of California Press

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