{"product_id":"posthuman-blackness-and-the-black-female-imagination-9780820356860","title":"Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePosthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e examines the future-oriented visions of black subjectivity in works by contemporary black women writers, filmmakers, and musicians, including Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, Julie Dash, and Janelle Mon?e. In this innovative study, Kristen Lillvis supplements historically situated conceptions of blackness with imaginative projections of black futures. This theoretical approach allows her to acknowledge the importance of history without positing a purely historical origin for black identities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe authors considered in this book set their stories in the past yet use their characters, particularly women characters, to show how the potential inherent in the future can inspire black authority and resistance. Lillvis introduces the term \"posthuman blackness\" to describe the empowered subjectivities black women and men develop through their simultaneous existence within past, present, and future temporalities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis project draws on posthuman theory--an area of study that examines the disrupted unities between biology and technology, the self and the outer world, and, most important for this project, history and potentiality--in its readings of a variety of imaginative works, including works of historical fiction such as Gayl Jones's \u003ci\u003eCorregidora\u003c\/i\u003e and Morrison's \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e. Reading neo-slave narratives through posthuman theory reveals black identity and culture as temporally flexible, based in the potential of what is to come and the history of what has occurred.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKRISTEN LILLVIS is an associate professor of English at Marshall University. Her work has been published in \u003ci\u003eMELUS\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eCritique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e; and in the edited collections \u003ci\u003eCommunity Boundaries and Border Crossings: Critical Essays on Ethnic Women Writers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFeminist and Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Mothering\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePracticing Science Fiction: Critical Essays on Writing, Reading, and Teaching the Genre\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50413503742226,"sku":"9780820356860","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b6a401a0-ca64-48c1-ab4f-020c25b3eaf3.jpg?v=1729354597","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/posthuman-blackness-and-the-black-female-imagination-9780820356860","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}