Love and Abolition The Social Life of Black Queer Performance.
"Examines queer performance and affective response in the Black radical tradition-using work by James Baldwin, Ntozake Shange, Sharon Bridgforth, and vanessa german-to demonstrate how love animates the contemporary prison abolition movement"--
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| Language: | English |
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press,
2022.
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| Series: | Black performance and cultural criticism.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Abolition literature: calling on tough and tender love
- Listening for Emmett Till: James Baldwin, Laurie Carlos, and Black love as survival
- Transforming harm into healing: Ntozake Shange and the Combahee River Collective
- Concrete utopias: activating spirit in the performance worlds of Sharon Bridgforth and Josefina Báez
- Love in the streets: Stephanie Leigh Batiste, vanessa german, and vigils for state violence
- Contraband love: humanities behind bars and abolition pedagogy
- Epilogue: Abolition as renegade presence.