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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781479810932
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082 0 4 _a305.896/073
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aIbrahim, Habiba
_eautore
245 1 0 _aBlack Age :
_bOceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life /
_cHabiba Ibrahim.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bNew York University Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2021
300 _a1 online resource :
_b1 b/w illustration
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. Shape- Shifters and Body Snatchers --
_t2. Vampires and Relics --
_t3. The Mass and Men --
_t4. Ghosts --
_tEpilogue: And with Black Children --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tNotes --
_tIndex --
_tAbout the Author
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aHONORABLE MENTION, HARRY SHAW AND KATRINA HAZZARD-DONALD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING WORK IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES, GIVEN BY THE POP CULTURE ASSOCIATIONA view of transatlantic slavery’s afterlife and modern Blackness through the lens of ageAlthough more than fifty years apart, the murders of Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin share a commonality: Black children are not seen as children. Time and time again, excuses for police brutality and aggression—particularly against Black children— concern the victim “appearing” as a threat. But why and how is the perceived “appearance” of Black persons so completely separated from common perceptions of age and time? Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life posits age, life stages, and lifespans as a central lens through which to view Blackness, particularly with regard to the history of transatlantic slavery. Focusing on Black literary culture of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Habiba Ibrahim examines how the history of transatlantic slavery and the constitution of modern Blackness has been reimagined through the embodiment of age. She argues that Black age—through nearly four centuries of subjugation— has become contingent, malleable, and suited for the needs of enslavement. As a result, rather than the number of years lived or a developmental life stage, Black age came to signify exchange value, historical under-development, timelessness, and other fantasies borne out of Black exclusion from the human.Ibrahim asks: What constitutes a normative timeline of maturation for Black girls when “all the women”—all the canonically feminized adults—“are white”? How does a “slave” become a “man” when adulthood is foreclosed to Black subjects of any gender? Black Age tracks the struggle between the abuses of Black exclusion from Western humanism and the reclamation of non-normative Black life, arguing that, if some of us are brave, it is because we dare to live lives considered incomprehensible within a schema of “human time.”
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American.
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653 _aAging.
653 _aBlackness.
653 _aBoyhood.
653 _aChildhood.
653 _aFeminism.
653 _aGender.
653 _aGirlhood.
653 _aHistoriography.
653 _aHumanism.
653 _aHumanness.
653 _aIntegration.
653 _aLiberalism.
653 _aManhood.
653 _aMinstrelsy.
653 _aNationalism.
653 _aNeoliberalism.
653 _aPlantation.
653 _aProtest.
653 _aSentimentalism.
653 _aSlavery.
653 _aVampires.
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