{"product_id":"afrofabulations-9781479888443","title":"AfroFabulations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinner, 2019 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, given by the American Society for Theatre Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHonorable Mention, 2021 Errol Hill Award, given by the American Society for Theatre Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArgues for a conception of black cultural life that exceeds post-blackness and conditions of loss \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAfro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eAfro-Fabulations\u003c\/i\u003e challenges genealogies of blackness that ignore its creative capacity to exceed conditions of traumatic loss, social death, and archival erasure.\u003cbr\u003eIf black survival in an anti-black world often feels like a race against time, \u003ci\u003eAfro-Fabulations \u003c\/i\u003elooks to the modes of memory and ima\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy foregrounding crucial modes of disappearance, withdrawal, obfuscation, and eclipse found across diverse examples of contemporary art, literature, and performance ... Nyong’o further renegotiates the terms of ongoing debates in literary studies, queer theory, and black thought most broadly. * LA Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eTo afro-fabulate is to listen to and know the ongoing history of anti-black racism, but also to rebuke it by telling another story. In showing us how artists and performers engage in this act of telling, Nyongo offers not only a compelling new way to think about works that challenge history, narrative, and truth, but also a method in which we might continue that work. * Brooklyn Rail *\u003cbr\u003eThe imaginative power of Nyong’o’s words, his push to reimagine chronology and time through the optics of Blackness and his insistence on the intellectual stakes of Afrofabulatory ambivalence stuck with me, reminding me of the importance of the ephemeral, the everyday, and the speculative. * Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal *\u003cbr\u003eTavia Nyong’o provides detailed descriptions of various performances, along with intuitive and counterintuitive insights about their creators. The book uses “interdisciplinary modes of investigation” to “aid this process of critical fabulation in a variety of ways...especially insofar as they bring into co-presence a sense of the incompossible, mingling what was with that might have been” (7). * QED *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409091993943,"sku":"9781479888443","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781479888443.jpg?v=1730505412","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/afrofabulations-9781479888443","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}