{"product_id":"falling-floating-flickering-9781479818457","title":"Falling Floating Flickering","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInsists on the importance of embodiment and movement to the creation of Black sociality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLinking African diasporic performance, disability studies, and movement studies, \u003ci\u003eFalling, Floating, Flickering\u003c\/i\u003e approaches disability transnationally by centering Black, African, and diasporic experiences. By eschewing capital's weighted calculus of which bodies hold value, this book centers alternate morphologies and movement practices that have previously been dismissed as abnormal or unrecognizable. \u003cbr\u003eTo move beyond binaries of ability, Hershini Bhana Young traverses multiple geohistories and cultural forms stretching from the United States and the Mediterranean to Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and South Africa, as well as independent and experimental film, novels, sculptures, images, dance, performances, and anecdotes. In doing so, she argues for the importance of differential embodiment and movement to the creation and survival of Black sociality, and refutes stereotypic notio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA stellar work of scholarship. Young is fearless in her questions and generous in her thinking, providing readers with the tools to imagine, critique, and speculate alongside her. She powerfully demonstrates the necessity of reading disability in context and transforms our understandings of disability and performance. * Alison Kafer, author of Feminist, Queer, Crip *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFalling, Floating, Flickering\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that Black sociality emerges from and can be reconsidered by foregrounding differential embodiment. Throughout the book, moments of tension, moving through rich theoretical ideas and difficult lived and performed embodiments, are followed by moments of relief, where Hershini Bhana Young offers not simply places to rest, but places to be invigorated. Reading this work is incredibly pleasurable, and I am grateful for its clarity and capaciousness. * Keguro Macharia, author of Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409060864343,"sku":"9781479818457","price":23.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781479818457.jpg?v=1730505290","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/falling-floating-flickering-9781479818457","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}