{"product_id":"fugitive-time-matthew-omelsky-9781478025382","title":"Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond","description":"In \u003ci\u003eFugitive Time\u003c\/i\u003e, Matthew Omelsky theorizes the embodied experience of time in twentieth- and twenty-first-century black artforms from across the world. Through the lens of time, he charts the sensations and coursing thoughts that accompany desires for freedom as they appear in the work of artists as varied as Toni Morrison, Yvonne Vera, Aimé Césaire, and Issa Samb. \"Fugitive time\" names a distinct utopian desire directed at the anticipated moment when the body and mind have been unburdened of the violence that has consumed black life globally for centuries, bringing with it a new form of being. Omelsky shows how fugitive time is not about attaining this transcendent release but is instead about sustaining the idea of it as an ecstatic social gathering. From the desire for ethereal queer worlds in the Black Audio Film Collective's \u003ci\u003eTwilight City\u003c\/i\u003e to Sun Ra's transformation of nineteenth-century scientific racism into an insurgent fugitive aesthetic, Omelsky shows how fugitive time evolves and how it remains a dominant form of imagining freedom in global black cultural expression.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Omelsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478025387\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478025382\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/08\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs","brand":"Matthew Omelsky","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46489366331647,"sku":"9781478025382","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_47baa78c-2816-49eb-8e24-261778068069.jpg?v=1736953345","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fugitive-time-matthew-omelsky-9781478025382","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}