{"product_id":"evidence-of-things-not-seen-rhonda-d-frederick-9781978818071","title":"Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions","description":"\u003ci\u003eEvidence of Things Not Seen\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003e Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e is an interdisciplinary study of blackness in genre literature of the Americas. The \"fantastical\" in fantastical blackness is conceived by an unrestrained imagination because it lives, despite every attempt at annihilation. This blackness amazes because it refuses the limits of anti-blackness. As put to work in this project, fantastical blackness is an ethical praxis that centers black self-knowledge as a point of departure rather than as a reaction to threatening or diminishing dominant narratives. Mystery, romance, fantasy, mixed-genre, and science fictions' unrestrained imaginings profoundly communicate this quality of blackness, specifically here through the work of Barbara Neely, Colson Whitehead, Nalo Hopkinson, and Colin Channer. When black writers center this expressive quality, they make fantastical blackness available to a broad audience that then uses its imaginable vocabularies to reshape extra-literary realities. Ultimately, popular genres' imaginable possibilities offer strategies through which the made up can be made real. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rhonda D. Frederick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1978818076\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781978818071\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Rhonda D. Frederick","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44075192844543,"sku":"9781978818071","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2930d71d-f609-4583-bf44-2ca000c8d543.jpg?v=1685458142","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/evidence-of-things-not-seen-rhonda-d-frederick-9781978818071","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}