{"product_id":"reclaiming-time-isaiah-matthew-wooden-9780810148222","title":"Reclaiming Time: Race, Temporality, and Black Expressive Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShowing how twenty-first-century Black theater and media arts challenge dominant conceptualizations of time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReclaiming Time: Race, Temporality, and Black Expressive Culture\u003c\/i\u003e examines works by contemporary Black artists in multiple media--drama, film, performance art, and photography--that trouble dominant conceptualizations and normative configurations of time in relation to race in the twenty-first century. Isaiah Matthew Wooden explores the ways in which an intentional and sometimes ludic engagement with time and temporality has enabled these artists to probe urgent questions and themes concerning the conditions of contemporary Black life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Wooden surveys a diverse array of performance-based and visual texts to explore the rich practices of contemporary Black expressive culture: dramatic works by playwrights Eisa Davis, Tarell Alvin McCraney, and Robert O'Hara; performance art and photography by visual artists Jefferson Pinder and LaToya Ruby Frazier; and feature-length cinema by director-producer Tanya Hamilton. These works expose normative time as specious and evidence the transformative potential in honing practices of Black temporal experimentation and intervention. By putting this cross-disciplinary set of texts in conversation with each other, Wooden sheds new light on the shrewd ways that they each reflect an investment in unbinding time from the exigencies of normativity and teleology, as well as on their shared commitments to reclaiming time to reimagine and represent Blackness in all its multiplicities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Isaiah Matthew Wooden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810148226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810148222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Isaiah Matthew Wooden","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46618212303103,"sku":"9780810148222","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_17ebc8bf-ddde-4606-9af2-5c5069f9be96.jpg?v=1740069470","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reclaiming-time-isaiah-matthew-wooden-9780810148222","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}