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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This truly revelatory book uncovers the
flesh of black age. Through a focus on black untimeliness, Habiba Ibrahim reveals a counter-history of modernity. Ibrahim adds vital new dimensions to the study of blackness as an alternative relation to time. This tremendous book reveals that black life is a state of being alienated from the time of one’s own body and a radical refusal of patriarchal adulthood." * Margo Natalie Crawford, author of
Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics *
"Habiba Ibrahim’s
Black Age opens up powerful new vocabularies and paradigms for thinking about Black cultural expression—and indeed Black life. Through beautifully argued analyses of literary texts, Ibrahim produces startling and profound insights into age, temporality, modernity, race, subjectivity, and the very category of the human." * Gayle Wald, author of
It’s Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television *
"Ibrahim’s dialectic of exclusion and reclamation advances an alternative way to discern the relationship between the past and the present...
Black Age points us to new ways of thinking and interpreting what time it is." -- ALH Online Review * American Literary History Online Review *
