The Queer Drama of Black Life
by Tavia Nyong'o
- Author(s)
- Tavia Nyong'o
- Publication
- New York : New York University Press, 2019
- Scope
- 266 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.
- ISBN
- 9781479888443
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 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.
- Keywords
- queer theory
- Location
- Cabinet 29 - 4: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; zwarte kunst en cultuur
- Remarks
- Incl. bibliographical references and Index
