Evidence of Things Not Seen
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Evidence of Things Not Seen

Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions

  1. 222 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Evidence of Things Not Seen

Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions

About this book

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.

 

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Information

Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781978818064
9781978818071
eBook ISBN
9781978818088
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Gothic, Romance, & Horror Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Prologue: Revelations in Black … and Popular
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. First—Mystery: Fantastically Black Blanche White: BarbaraNeely’s Blanche on the Lam
  9. 2. Second—Urban Romantica: Making Black and Jamaican Love: Colin Channer’s Waiting in Vain and Romance-ified Diaspora Identities
  10. 3. Third—Fantasy: Fantastic Possibilities: Theorizing National Belonging through Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring
  11. 4. Fourth—Multigenre: Seeing White: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad
  12. 5. Fifth—Fantasy, Short Story: Fantastically Black Woman: Nalo Hopkinson’s “A Habit of Waste”
  13. Epilogue
  14. Acknowledgments
  15. Notes
  16. Index
  17. About the Author

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