Black utopias : speculative life and the music of other worlds /
Black Utopias posits a concept of utopia made possible by black people's exclusion from the human and expressed through the ecstatic practices, community creation, speculative fiction and music. Jayna Brown explores the practices and works of nineteenth century black women mystics as well as tw...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham, North Carolina :
Duke University Press,
2021.
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| Summary: | Black Utopias posits a concept of utopia made possible by black people's exclusion from the human and expressed through the ecstatic practices, community creation, speculative fiction and music. Jayna Brown explores the practices and works of nineteenth century black women mystics as well as twentieth century musicians and speculative fiction writers including mystics Sojourner Truth and Rebecca Cox Jackson, musicians Alice Coltrane and Sun Ra, and writers Samuel Delany and Octavia Butler. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781478010548 1478010541 9781478011675 147801167X |