Slavery and the post-black imagination / edited by Bertram D. Ashe and Ilka Saal.
"From Kara Walker's hellscape antebellum silhouettes to Paul Beatty's bizarre twist on slavery in The Sellout and from Colson Whitehead's literal Underground Railroad to Jordan Peele's body-snatching Get Out, this volume offers commentary on contemporary artistic works that...
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[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- The Blackest Blackness: Slavery and the Satire of Kara Walker / Derek Conrad Murray
- Three-Fifths of a Black Life Matters Too: Four Neo-Slave Novels from the Year 'Post-Racial' Definitively Stopped Being a Thing / Derek C. Maus
- Whispering Racism in a Post-Racial World: Slavery and Postblackness in Paul Beatty's The Sellout / Cameron Leader-Picone
- Getting Graphic with Kindred: The Neo-Slave Narrative of the Black Lives Matter Movement / Mollie A. Godfrey
- "Stay Woke:" Post-Black Filmmaking and the Afterlife of Slavery in Jordan Peele's Get Out / Kimberly Nichele Brown
- 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
- 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
- Thylias Moss's Slave Moth: Liberatory Verse Narrative and Performance Art / Malin Pereira
- Plantation Memories: Cheryl Dunye's Representation of a Representation of American Slavery in The Watermelon Woman / Bertram D. Ashe
- "An Audience is a Mob on its Butt": Interview with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins / Bertram D. Ashe and Ilka Saal.