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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Rhonda D. FrederickPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.513kg ISBN: 9781978818071ISBN 10: 1978818076 Pages: 246 Publication Date: 15 July 2022 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPrologue Introduction 1 First—Mystery: Fantastically Black Blanche White: BarbaraNeely’s Blanche on the Lam 2 Second—Urban Romantica: Making Black and Jamaican Love: Colin Channer’s Waiting in Vain and Romance-ified Diaspora Identities 3 Third—Fantasy: Fantastic Possibilities: Theorizing National Belonging through Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring 4 Fourth—Multigenre: Seeing White: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad 5 Fifth—Fantasy, Short Story: Fantastically Black Woman: Nalo Hopkinson’s “A Habit of Waste” Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes IndexReviewsWith the brilliance of James Baldwin's cultural criticism as a conceptual frame, Frederick's 'fantastical blackness' defies the limitations offered by colonial attempts at diminishing African subjectivities. Instead, Frederick shows us how Black writers of fantastical blackness explore the contours of African identities made possible without the dehumanization of the colonial project. This contribution to scholarship on Black speculative fiction is a tour de force, for sure. --Meredith Gadsby author of Sucking Salt: Caribbean Women Writers, Migration, and Survival With the brilliance of James Baldwin's cultural criticism as a conceptual frame, Frederick's 'fantastical blackness' defies the limitations offered by colonial attempts at diminishing African subjectivities. Instead, Frederick shows us how Black writers of fantastical blackness explore the contours of African identities made possible without the dehumanization of the colonial project. This contribution to scholarship on Black speculative fiction is a tour de force, for sure. --Meredith Gadsby author of Sucking Salt: Caribbean Women Writers, Migration, and Survival Evidence of Things Not Seen is a thoughtful and welcome examination of contemporary Black fantastic literature that expands our understanding of the liberatory ways that Black authors creatively imagine and write against the ongoing perniciousness of global anti-blackness. --Michelle D. Commander author of Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic Author InformationRHONDA FREDERICK is an associate professor of African and African diaspora studies and English at Boston College in Massachusetts. She is the author of ""Colón Man a Come"": Mythographies of Panama Canal Migration. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |