Rhonda D. Frederick

Evidence of Things Not Seen

Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions

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Produktbeschreibung

Offers an interdisciplinary study of blackness in genre literature of the Americas. The â fantasticalâ 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9781978818064
• ISBN-10: 1978818068
• Artikelnr.: 62812881

Autorenporträt

RHONDA 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.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue 
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 
Index