Afro-Fabulations by Tavia Nyong'o - 9781479856275

Afro-FabulationsThe Queer Drama of Black Life\nAuthor(s): Tavia Nyong'o\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479856275, 978-1479856275\nSynopsis\nWinner, 2019 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, given by the American Society for Theatre Research\n Honorable Mention, 2021 Errol Hill Award, given by the American Society for Theatre Research\n Argues for a conception of black cultural life that exceeds post-blackness and conditions of loss \n In Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life, cultural critic and historian Tavia Nyong'o surveys the conditions of contemporary black artistic production in the era of post-blackness. Moving fluidly between the insurgent art of the 1960's and the intersectional activism of the present day, Afro-Fabulations challenges genealogies of blackness that ignore its creative capacity to exceed conditions of traumatic loss, social death, a.