TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nyong'o,Tavia
TI  - Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life 
T2  - Sexual Cultures
SN  - 9781479856275
AV  - PS338.N4 O26 2018eb
U1  - 810.9/896073 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - African Americans in the performing arts
KW  - American drama
KW  - African American authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Gays in the performing arts
KW  - United States
KW  - Homosexuality in the theater
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Adrian Piper
KW  - African diaspora
KW  - Anthropocene
KW  - Beasts of the Southern Wild
KW  - Galindo, Regina José
KW  - Geo Wyeth
KW  - Gilles Deleuze
KW  - Harrell, Trajal
KW  - Jason Holliday
KW  - Jason and Shirley
KW  - Kara Walker
KW  - Manderlay
KW  - Mandingo
KW  - Melvin van Peebles
KW  - Paris Is Burning
KW  - Portrait of Jason
KW  - Shirley Clarke
KW  - Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
KW  - The Einstein Intersection
KW  - The Flawless Mother Sabrina
KW  - The Queen
KW  - Wu Tsang
KW  - aesthetics
KW  - afrofuturism
KW  - antinormativity
KW  - archives
KW  - artificial intelligence
KW  - black art
KW  - black code studies
KW  - black performance
KW  - black queer aesthetics
KW  - black studies
KW  - blaxploitation
KW  - brownness
KW  - chusmeria
KW  - climate change
KW  - critical ethnic studies
KW  - cultural theory
KW  - ecology
KW  - fabulation
KW  - femicide
KW  - film studies
KW  - funk
KW  - indigenous studies
KW  - mass incarceration
KW  - performance art
KW  - performance
KW  - post-humanism
KW  - postmodern dance
KW  - psychoanalysis
KW  - public art
KW  - queer dance
KW  - queer studies
KW  - queer temporality
KW  - queer theory
KW  - science fiction
KW  - slavery
KW  - social death
KW  - transgender studies
KW  - transhumanism
KW  - wildness
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Winner, 2019 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, given by the American Society for Theatre ResearchArgues for a conception of black cultural life that exceeds post-blackness and conditions of loss In Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life, cultural critic and historian Tavia Nyong'o surveys the conditions of contemporary black artistic production in the era of post-blackness. Moving fluidly between the insurgent art of the 1960's and the intersectional activism of the present day, Afro-Fabulations challenges genealogies of blackness that ignore its creative capacity to exceed conditions of traumatic loss, social death, and archival erasure.If black survival in an anti-black world often feels like a race against time, Afro-Fabulations looks to the modes of memory and imagination through which a queer and black polytemporality is invented and sustained. Moving past the antirelational debates in queer theory, Nyong'o posits queerness as "angular sociality," drawing upon queer of color critique in order to name the gate and rhythm of black social life as it moves in and out of step with itself. He takes up a broad range of sites of analysis, from speculative fiction to performance art, from artificial intelligence to Blaxploitation cinema. Reading the archive of violence and trauma against the grain, Afro-Fabulations summons the poetic powers of queer world-making that have always been immanent to the fight and play of black life
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