Afro-fabulations : the queer drama of black life /

"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...

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Main Author:	Ochieng' Nyongó, Tavia Amolo (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York University Press, [2019]
Series:	Sexual cultures.
Subjects:	American drama > African American authors > History and criticism. African Americans in the performing arts. Gays in the performing arts > United States. Homosexuality in the theater > United States. American drama > African American authors. Gays in the performing arts. Homosexuality in the theater. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Summary:	"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"--
Physical Description:	ix, 265 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781479856275 1479856274 9781479888443 1479888443