Alex Zamalin

Black Utopia

The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism

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Produktbeschreibung

Alex Zamalin offers a groundbreaking examination of African American visions of utopia and their counterutopian counterparts. Considering figures linked to racial separatism, postracialism, anticolonialism, Pan-Africanism, and Afrofuturism, he argues that the black utopian tradition continues to challenge American political thought and culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 142mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9780231187411
• ISBN-10: 0231187416
• Artikelnr.: 54595550

Autorenporträt

Alex Zamalin

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Utopia and Black American Thought
1. Martin Delany's Experiment in Escape
2. Turn-of-the-Century Black Literary Utopianism
3. W. E. B. Du Bois's World of Utopian Intimacy
4. George S. Schuyler, Irony, and Utopia
5. Richard Wright's Black Power and Anticolonial Antiutopianism
6. Sun Ra and Cosmic Blackness
7. Samuel Delany and the Ambiguity of Utopia
8. Octavia Butler and the Politics of Utopian Transcendence
Conclusion: Black Utopia and the Contemporary Political Imagination
Notes
Bibliography
Index