Black Madness // Mad Blackness

Black Madness // Mad Blackness

Theri Alyce Pickens • Duke University Press

ISBN-10: 1478004045 · ISBN-13: 978‑1478004042 · 2019

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Further Details Title: Black Madness :: Mad Blackness Condition: New Description: In Black Madness :: Mad Blackness Therí Alyce Pickens rethinks the relationship between Blackness and disability, unsettling the common theorization that they are mutually constitutive. Pickens shows how Black speculative and science fiction authors such as Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, and Tananarive Due craft new worlds that reimagine the intersection of Blackness and madness. These creative writer-theorists formulate new parameters for thinking through Blackness and madness. Pickens considers Butler's Fledgling as an archive of Black madness that demonstrates how race and ability shape subjectivity while constructing the building blocks for antiracist and anti-ableist futures. She examines how Hopkinson's Midnight Robber theorizes mad Blackness and how Due's African Immortals series contests dominant definitions of the human. The theorizations of race and disability that emerge from these works, Pickens demonstrates, challenge the paradigms of subjectivity that white supremacy and ableism enforce, thereby pointing to the potential for new forms of radical politics. Author: Therí Alyce Pickens Format: Paperback EAN: 9781478004042 Country/Region of Manufacture: US ISBN: 9781478004042 Publisher: Duke University Press Release Date: 06/07/2019 Language: English Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Item Weight: 272g Genre: Literary Criticism Topic: Social Sciences, Society & Culture Release Year: 2019 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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