Rhonda D Frederick

Evidence of Things Not Seen

Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions

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Produktbeschreibung

Evidence of Things Not Seen is an interdisciplinary study of blackness in genre literature of the Americas. When mystery, romance, fantasy, mixed-genre, and science fiction writers center fantastical blackness, they make this expressive quality available to a broad audience that uses pop fictions’ imaginable vocabularies to reshape extra-literary realities. Ultimately, popular genres’ imaginable possibilities help us strategize ways that the made up can be made real.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781978818071
• ISBN-10: 1978818076
• Artikelnr.: 62820610

Autorenporträt

RHONDA FREDERICK is an associate professor of African and African diaspora studies and English at Boston College in Massachusetts. She is the author of "Colón Man a Come": Mythographies of Panama Canal Migration.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue 
Introduction 
1 First—Mystery: Fantastically Black Blanche White: BarbaraNeely’s Blanche
on the Lam 
2 Second—Urban Romantica: Making Black and Jamaican Love: Colin Channer’s
Waiting in Vain and Romance-ified Diaspora Identities 
3 Third—Fantasy: Fantastic Possibilities: Theorizing National Belonging
through Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring 
4 Fourth—Multigenre: Seeing White: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground
Railroad 
5 Fifth—Fantasy, Short Story: Fantastically Black Woman: Nalo Hopkinson’s
“A Habit of Waste” 
Epilogue 
Acknowledgments
Notes 
Index