Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (717 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0820351229 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 148 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Her work has been published in MELUS; Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction; and in the edited collections Community Boundaries and Border Crossings: Critical Essays on Ethnic Women Writers, Feminist and Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Mothering, and Practicing Science Fiction: Critical Essays on Writing, Reading, and Teaching the Genre. About the Author Kristen Lillvis is an associate professor of English at Marshall University.
. Kristen Lillvis is an associate professor of English at Marshall University. Her work has been published in MELUS; Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction; and in the edited collections Community Boundaries and Border Crossings: Critical Essays on Ethnic Women Writers, Feminist and Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Mothering, and Prac
Lillvis introduces the term “posthuman blackness” to describe the empowered subjectivities black women and men develop through their simultaneous existence within past, present, and future temporalities.This project draws on posthuman theoryan area of study that examines the disrupted unities between biology and technology, the self and the outer world, and, most important for this project, history and potentialityin its readings of a variety of imaginative works, including works of historical fiction such as Gayl Jones’s Corregidora and Morrison’s Beloved. Reading neo–slave narratives through posthuman theory reveals black identity and culture as temporally flexible, based in the potential of what is to come and the history of what has occurred.. Posthuman Bl