TY - BOOK AU - Saal,Ilka AU - Ashe,Bertram D. TI - Slavery and the post-black imagination SN - 9780295746654 AV - PS153.N5 U1 - 810.9/896073 23 PY - 2020/// CY - Seattle PB - University of Washington Press KW - American literature KW - African American authors KW - History and criticism KW - 21st century KW - Slavery in literature KW - Slavery in mass media KW - fast KW - African Americans KW - Social conditions KW - Race in literature KW - Race in motion pictures KW - Slavery in motion pictures KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The Blackest Blackness: Slavery and the Satire of Kara Walker / Derek Conrad Murray -- Three-Fifths of a Black Life Matters Too: Four Neo-Slave Novels from the Year 'Post-Racial' Definitively Stopped Being a Thing / Derek C. Maus -- Whispering Racism in a Post-Racial World: Slavery and Postblackness in Paul Beatty's The Sellout / Cameron Leader-Picone -- Getting Graphic with Kindred: The Neo-Slave Narrative of the Black Lives Matter Movement / Mollie A. Godfrey -- "Stay Woke:" Post-Black Filmmaking and the Afterlife of Slavery in Jordan Peele's Get Out / Kimberly Nichele Brown -- The Song: Living with "Dixie" and the "Coon Space" of Post-Blackness / Chenjerai Kumanyika, Jack Hitt, and Chris Neary, with an introduction by Bertram D. Ashe -- 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 / Ilka Saal -- Thylias Moss's Slave Moth: Liberatory Verse Narrative and Performance Art / Malin Pereira -- Plantation Memories: Cheryl Dunye's Representation of a Representation of American Slavery in The Watermelon Woman / Bertram D. Ashe -- "An Audience is a Mob on its Butt": Interview with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins / Bertram D. Ashe and Ilka Saal N2 - "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 -- including prose fiction, the graphic novel, verse, drama, film, TV, and music -- to capture the ubiquity and vibrancy of the post-black imagination in contemporary African American culture. They interrogate political, as well as formal, interventions into established discourses of slavery and black identities, to demonstrate how interrogations of black identities frequently goes hand in hand with the purposeful refiguration of slavery's prevailing tropes, narratives, and images. Taken altogether, this collection positions "post-blackness" as a valid and productive category of analysis that brings recent developments in African American cultural productions across various media into sharp focus"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2335830 ER -