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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Brown, Jayna, 1966- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, 2021.
Subjects:	Philosophical anthropology. Philosophy, Black. Utopias. Racism. African Americans > Attitudes. African Americans > Race identity. Utopias in literature.

Table of Contents:

Ecstasy
Along the Psychic Highway: Black Women Mystics and Utopias of the Ecstatic
Lovely Sky Boat: Alice Coltrane and the Metaphysics of Sound
Evolution
Our Place is Among the Stars: Octavia E. Butler and the Preservation of Species
Speculative Life: Utopia Without the Human
Sense and Matter
In the Realm of the Senses: Heterotopias of Subjectivity, Desire, and Discourse
The Freedom Not to Be: Sun Ra's Alternative Ontology.