Jayna Brown

Black Utopias

Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds

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Produktbeschreibung

Engaging with the work of Black musicians, writers, and women mystics, Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as an occasion to explore new states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9781478011675
• ISBN-10: 147801167X
• Artikelnr.: 60321554

Autorenporträt

Jayna Brown is Professor in the Graduate Program in Media Studies at the Pratt Institute and author of Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction  1
Part I: Ecstasy
1. Along the Psychic Highway: Black Women Mystics and Utopias of the
Ecstatic  23
2. Lovely Sky Boat: Alice Coltrane and the Metaphysics of Sound  59
Part II: Evolution
3. Our Place is Among the Stars: Octavia E. Butler and the Preservation of
Species  83
4. Speculative Life: Utopia Without the Human  111
Part III: Sense and Matter
5. In the Realm of the Senses: Heterotopias of Subjectivity, Desire, and
Discourse  137
6. The Freedom Not to Be: Sun Ra's Alternative Ontology  155
Conclusion  177
Notes  179
Bibliography  195
Index  205