{"product_id":"slavery-and-the-post-black-imagination-bertram-d-ashe-9780295746630","title":"Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Kara Walker's hellscape antebellum silhouettes to Paul Beatty's bizarre twist on slavery in \u003ci\u003eThe Sellout\u003c\/i\u003e and from Colson Whitehead's literal \u003ci\u003eUnderground Railroad\u003c\/i\u003e to Jordan Peele's body-snatching \u003ci\u003eGet Out\u003c\/i\u003e, this volume offers commentary on contemporary artistic works that present, like musical deep cuts, some challenging \"alternate takes\" on American slavery. These artists deliberately confront and negotiate the psychic and representational legacies of slavery to imagine possibilities and change. The essays in this volume explore the conceptions of freedom and blackness that undergird these narratives, critically examining how artists growing up in the post-Civil Rights era have nuanced slavery in a way that is distinctly different from the first wave of neo-slave narratives that emerged from the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlavery and the Post-Black Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e positions post-blackness as a productive category of analysis that brings into sharp focus recent developments in black cultural productions across various media. These ten essays investigate how millennial black cultural productions trouble long-held notions of blackness by challenging limiting scripts. They interrogate political as well as formal interventions into established discourses to demonstrate how explorations of black identities frequently go hand in hand with the purposeful refiguring of slavery's prevailing tropes, narratives, and images.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA V Ethel Willis White Book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bertram D. Ashe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0295746637\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780295746630\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Washington Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/06\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2020","brand":"Bertram D. Ashe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913566814463,"sku":"9780295746630","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_826ed9ec-b4f3-4d64-b092-ea38ecdb032d.jpg?v=1680621094","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/slavery-and-the-post-black-imagination-bertram-d-ashe-9780295746630","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}