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Afro-FabulationsTavia Nyong'o

Afro-Fabulations

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"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 fluidly between the insurgent art of the 1960's and the intersectional activism of the present day, Afro-Fabulations challenges genealogies of blackness that ignore its creative capacity to exceed conditions of traumatic loss, social death, and archival erasure"--

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2 editions
  • Hardcover · English · 2018
    NYU Press · 280 pages · 9781479856275
  • Other · English · 2018
    New York University Press · 280 pages · 9781479888443
American dramaAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAfrican Americans in the performing artsGays in the performing artsHomosexuality in the theaterPs338.n4 o25 2019810.9/896073