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1 online resource (xvi, 155 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Making Black madness -- A mad Black thang -- Abandoning the "human"? -- Not making meaning, not making since (the end of time). |
Summary |
In 'Black Madness :: Mad Blackness' Theri Alyce Pickens rethinks the relationship between Blackness and disability, unsettling the common theorization that they are mutually constitutive. Pickens shows how Black speculative and science fiction authors such as Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, and Tananarive Due craft new worlds that reimagine the intersection of Blackness and madness. These creative writer-theorists formulate new parameters for thinking through Blackness and madness. Pickens considers Butler's 'Fledgling' as an archive of Black madness that demonstrates how race and ability shape subjectivity while constructing the building blocks for antiracist and anti-ableist futures. She examines how Hopkinson's 'Midnight Robber' theorizes mad Blackness and how Due's 'African Immortals' series contest dominant definitions of the human. The theorizations of race and disability that emerge from these works, Pickens demonstrates, challenge the paradigms of subjectivity that white supremacy and ableism enforce, thereby pointing to the potential for new forms of radical politics. |
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Minority people with disabilities -- United States.
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Minority people with disabilities. |
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United States. |
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African Americans with disabilities -- United States.
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African Americans with disabilities. |
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People with disabilities -- United States.
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People with disabilities. |
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Discrimination against people with disabilities -- United States.
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Discrimination against people with disabilities. |
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American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- African American authors. |
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Science fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction, American. |
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Race in literature.
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Race in literature. |
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People with disabilities in literature.
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People with disabilities in literature. |
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African Americans -- Study and teaching.
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African Americans -- Study and teaching. |
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Disability studies -- United States.
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Disability studies. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Pickens, Therí A. Black madness : : mad Blackness. Durham : Duke University Press, 2019 9781478003748 (DLC) 2018040998 (OCoLC)1077585793 |
ISBN |
9781478005506 electronic book |
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1478005505 electronic book |
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9781478003748 hardcover alkaline paper |
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147800374X hardcover alkaline paper |
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9781478004042 paperback alkaline paper |
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1478004045 paperback alkaline paper |