Slavery and the post-black imagination /edited by Bertram D. Ashe and Ilka Saal.
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- Seattle : University of Washington Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
The Blackest Blackness: Slavery and the Satire of Kara Walker / Three-Fifths of a Black Life Matters Too: Four Neo-Slave Novels from the Year 'Post-Racial' Definitively Stopped Being a Thing / Whispering Racism in a Post-Racial World: Slavery and Postblackness in Paul Beatty's The Sellout / Getting Graphic with Kindred: The Neo-Slave Narrative of the Black Lives Matter Movement / "Stay Woke:" Post-Black Filmmaking and the Afterlife of Slavery in Jordan Peele's Get Out / The Song: Living with "Dixie" and the "Coon Space" of Post-Blackness / Performing Slavery at the Turn of the Millennium: Stereotypes, Affect, and Theatricality in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Neighbors and Young Jean Lee's The Shipment / Thylias Moss's Slave Moth: Liberatory Verse Narrative and Performance Art / Plantation Memories: Cheryl Dunye's Representation of a Representation of American Slavery in The Watermelon Woman / "An Audience is a Mob on its Butt": Interview with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins / Derek Conrad Murray -- Derek C. Maus -- Cameron Leader-Picone -- Mollie A. Godfrey -- Kimberly Nichele Brown -- Chenjerai Kumanyika, Jack Hitt, and Chris Neary, with an introduction by Bertram D. Ashe -- Ilka Saal -- Malin Pereira -- Bertram D. Ashe -- Bertram D. Ashe and Ilka Saal.
"Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination brings the provocative category of post-blackness to bear on the past 30 years of artistic exploration into the afterlife of slavery as it continues to manifest in the United States. The selected essays cut across a broad spectrum of artistic media and genres --
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American literature--African American authors--History and criticism. American literature--History and criticism.--21st century Slavery in literature. Slavery in mass media.