Rochelle Spencer

AfroSurrealism

The African Diaspora's Surrealist Fiction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining the surrealist novels of several contemporary writers, AfroSurrealism argues that we have entered a new and exciting era of the black novel, one that is more invested than ever before in the cross-sections of science, technology, history, folklore, and myth.

Produktdetails

• The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 233mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 244g
• ISBN-13: 9781032082370
• ISBN-10: 1032082372
• Artikelnr.: 62149407

Autorenporträt

Rochelle Spencer is co-editor of All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: AfroSurrealism: A New Black Surrealism 1. Mat Johnson's Pym
and Helen Oyeyemi's boy snow bird: AfroSurrealism, Magical Realism, and the
Psychology of Reimagining the Past 2. Edwidge Danticat's Claire of the Sea
Light, Chris Abani's The Secret History of Las Vegas, and the AfroSurreal
Grotesque 3. AfroSurreal and Afrofuturistic Cinematic Storytelling: Junot
Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Colson Whitehead's Zone One
4. The Postmodern Fables of Victor LaValle's Big Machine and Summer
Brenner's Oakland Tales 5. Horror and Immortality in Tananarive Due's
Ghost Summer, Nalo Hopkinson's Falling in Love with Hominids, and Rachel
Eliza Griffiths' Woman after Her Last Wound Conclusion: Jeffery Renard
Allen and Sustaining the Surreal Moment Appendix