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Author:

Murillo, John, III, author.

Title:

Impossible stories : on the space and time of Black destructive creation / John Murillo III.

Publisher:

The Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

viii, 205 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Racism.
African Americans--Race identity.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
Race relations in literature.
Space and time in literature.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
African Americans--Race identity.
American literature--African American authors.
Race relations in literature.
Racism.
Space and time in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-199) and index.

Contents:

First arrangement: Black (in) time: untimely Blackness. Prelude: Untimely fragments and the beginnings of a reflection ; Black holes and generations ; Untime -- Second arrangement: The untimely works and worlds of impossible stories. Prelude: Trauma work ; Of shadows and diamonds ; Elliptical in love dot dot dot -- Third arrangement; Transmissions from out of nowhere. Prelude: No place, not any place, out of place ; Nowheresville ; Stanky shrines and hollow bastions -- Outro: Out of time in the middle of nowhere.

Summary:

"Merging theory and praxis, Murillo engages with Gayl Jones's Corregidora, Octavia Butler's Kindred, Toni Morrison's Beloved, Kiese Laymon's Long Division, Dionne Brand's A Map to the Door of No Return, and Paul Beatty's The Sellout to show how Afro-pessimism offers new ways to think about anti-Black racism and practice Black creativity"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

New suns: race, gender, and sexuality in the speculative

ISBN:

0814257771
9780814257777
0814214592
9780814214596

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1182019786

LCCN:

2020029421

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)