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- Book Title
- Black Utopias : Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds
- ISBN
- 9781478010548
- Subject Area
- History, Social Science, Philosophy
- Publication Name
- Black Utopias : Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Subject
- Feminism & Feminist Theory, Black Studies (Global), General, United States / General
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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Engaging with the work of Black musicians, writers, and women mystics, Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as an occasion to explore new states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture.
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Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
1478010541
ISBN-13
9781478010548
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23050105025
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Black Utopias : Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Feminism & Feminist Theory, Black Studies (Global), General, United States / General
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History, Social Science, Philosophy
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2020-030935
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Bd450.B67 2021
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What does Black speculative practice feel like under the skin? What does it sound like? Where does it take us? Jayna Brown studies centuries of strange Black diviners and offers a map over the universe that is not about the stars but about a Blackness that births and rebirths life in contradicting quantum multiplicity. Where does it get at you (under the skin)? How do you hear it calling you? Let's go., Jayna Brown's Black Utopias . . . is personal and universal, critical and charitable, and continuously creative. . . . Brown succeeds in inviting readers to an imaginal realm of a less constrained 'reality' than what many people--and especially academics--presuppose., Jayna Brown's Black Utopias is an innovative interdisciplinary text that brilliantly uncovers a rich current of radical otherworldly utopianism within Black life, thought, and expressive culture.... It is absolutely essential reading for students and scholars of sf, utopia, critical humanisms, and posthumanism., Among texts that examine Black embodiment--that examine our existence beyond and transcendence from the horrific bounds of State-sanctioned supremacies-- Black Utopias stands out.... Regardless of your field, this is a must-read about Black existence and alternate states of freedom., As the book unfolds, the pleasure Brown finds in her archival encounters with Sojourner Truth and musicians Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane is as palpable as the book's pressed pages., Black Utopias is replete with flashes of insight, important provocations, and an urgent ethical and political thrust. Jayna Brown models a patient search for intellectual kin adequate to the nightmare world of the present and its dead and deadening ideologies. She reminds us of the extent to which so much Black political thinking begins from a profound negation of the fundamental tenets of Western models of subjectivity. Ambitious, bold, and bracing, Black Utopias forcefully reorients conversations around utopia and Afrofuturism. A field-defining work., Throughout Black Utopias , Brown commits to multiplicity and contradiction. We see this in her non-hagiographic approaches to preachers, musicians, writers, and literary figures. . . . It is in this politicization of the vibrational and sonic that we experience the depth of Blackness's radical potential., There are books that captivate you fully, that illuminate you, challenge you, that pierce through you with such clarity and imaginative force, opening mind and soul beyond the definable, the settled.... Jayna Brown's Black Utopias is such a book., The project of Black Utopias ' is a way of residing in spaces of ambiguity' where the line between madness and prophetic vision cannot be confidently drawn. It is very worthwhile to follow her lead into exploring that uncanny space in this innovative, well-researched piece of scholarship.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I: Ecstasy 1. Along the Psychic Highway: Black Women Mystics and Utopias of the Ecstatic 23 2. Lovely Sky Boat: Alice Coltrane and the Metaphysics of Sound 59 Part II: Evolution 3. Our Place is Among the Stars: Octavia E. Butler and the Preservation of Species 83 4. Speculative Life: Utopia Without the Human 111 Part III: Sense and Matter 5. In the Realm of the Senses: Heterotopias of Subjectivity, Desire, and Discourse 137 6. The Freedom Not to Be: Sun Ra's Alternative Ontology 155 Conclusion 177 Notes 179 Bibliography 195 Index 205
Copyright Date
2021
Dewey Decimal
128
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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