{"product_id":"impossible-stories-john-murillo-iii-9780814214596","title":"Impossible Stories: On the Space and Time of Black Destructive Creation","description":"In \u003ci\u003eImpossible Stories, \u003c\/i\u003eJohn Murillo offers bold new readings of recent and canonical Black creative works within an Afro-pessimistic framework to excavate how time, space, and blackness intersect--or, rather, crash. Building on Michelle Wright's ideas about dislocation from time and space as constitutive to being Black in America, as well as on W. E. B. DuBois's theories of temporalization, he reconsiders the connections between physical phenomena and principles, literature, history, and the fragmented nature of Black time and space. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Taking as his lens the fragment--fragmented bodies, fragments of memories, fragments of texts--Murillo theorizes new directions for Black identity and cultural production. Combining a critical engagement of physics and metaphysics with innovative readings of Gayl Jones's \u003ci\u003eCorregidora\u003c\/i\u003e, Octavia Butler's \u003ci\u003eKindred\u003c\/i\u003e, Toni Morrison's \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e, Kiese Laymon's\u003ci\u003e Long Division\u003c\/i\u003e, Dionne Brand's \u003ci\u003eA Map to the Door of No Return, \u003c\/i\u003eand Paul Beatty's \u003ci\u003eThe Sellout\u003c\/i\u003e, he offers new ways to think about anti-Black racism and practice Black creativity. Ultimately, in his equally creative and analytical responses to depictions of Black people left out of history and barred from spaces, Murillo argues that through Afro-pessimism, Black people can fight the anti-Black cosmos. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Murillo III\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814214592\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814214596\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/06\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.80d","brand":"John Murillo III","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44080025862399,"sku":"9780814214596","price":119.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8e21c79c-8f51-46a1-a479-4459bdd642ca.jpg?v=1685484516","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/impossible-stories-john-murillo-iii-9780814214596","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}