Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A]n academic and culturally relevant feast for the reader."
* Journal of Popular Culture *
"Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination manages to clarify and convincingly advance the discourse of post-Blackness in conversation with contemporary representations of slavery."
* American and English Studies *
"[A] formidable collection."
* Amerikastudien / American Studies *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Ilka Saal and Bertram D. Ashe
1. The Blackest Blackness: Slavery and the Satire of Kara Walker
Derek Conrad Murray
2. Three-Fifths of a Black Life Matters Too: Four Neo-Slave novels from the Year Postracial Definitively Stopped Being a Thing
Derek C. Maus
3. Whispering Racism in a Postracial World: Slavery and Post-Blackness in Paul Beatty's the Sellout
Cameron Leader-Picone
4. Getting Graphic with Kindred:
The Neo-Slave Narrative of the Black Lives Matter Movement
Mollie Godfrey
5. "Stay Woke": Post-Black Filmmaking the Afterlife of Slavery in Jordan Peele's Get Out
Kimerly Nichele Brown
6. The Song: Living with "Dixie" and the "Coon Space" of Post-Blackness
Chenjerai Kumanyika, Jack Hitt, and Chris neary, with an introduction by Bertram D. Ashe
7. Performing Slavery at the Turn of the Millennium: Stereotypes, Affect, and Theatricality in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Neighbors and Young Jean Lee's The Shipment
Ilka saal
8. Thylias Moss's Slave Moth: Liberatory Verse Narrative and Performance Art
Malin Pereira
9. Plantation Memories: Cheryl Dunye's Representation of a Representation of American Slavery in the Watermelon Woman
Bertram D. Ashe
10. "An Audience Is a Mob on Its Butt": An Interview with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Bertram D. Ashe and Ilka Saal
List of Contributors
Index
