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03699aam a2200493 i 4500 001 FF4AF504AF5911EDB66B324357ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230218010045 008 220106s2022 nju b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021044042 020 $a 1978818068 020 $a 9781978818064 020 $a 1978818076 020 $a 9781978818071 035 $a (OCoLC)1268984360 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d IND $d OCLCF $d GSU $d CBY $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS374.B635 $b F74 2022 082 00 $a 813.009/352996073 $2 23/eng/20220111 100 1 $a Frederick, Rhonda D., $d 1965- $e author. 245 10 $a Evidence of things not seen : $b fantastical Blackness in genre fictions / $c Rhonda D. Frederick. 264 1 $a New Brunswick, New Jersey : $b Rutgers University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a xiv, 228 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-220) and index. 520 $a "Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions is an interdisciplinary study of blackness in genre literature of the Americas. The "fantastical" in fantastical blackness is conceived by an unrestrained imagination because it lives, despite every attempt at annihilation. This blackness amazes because it refuses the limits of anti-blackness. As put to work in this project, fantastical blackness is an ethical praxis that centers black self-knowledge as a point of departure rather than as a reaction to threatening or diminishing dominant narratives. Mystery, romance, fantasy, mixed-genre, and science fictions' unrestrained imaginings profoundly communicate this quality of blackness, specifically here through the work of Barbara Neely, Colson Whitehead, Nalo Hopkinson, and Colin Channer. When black writers center this expressive quality, they make fantastical blackness available to a broad audience that then uses its imaginable vocabularies to reshape extra-literary realities. Ultimately, popular genres' imaginable possibilities offer strategies through which the made up can be made real"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Prologue : Revelations in Black ... and Popular -- 1. First : Mystery : Fantastically Black Blanche White : Barbara Neely's Blanche on the Lam -- 2. Second : Urban Romantica : Making Black and Jamaican love : Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain and Romance-ified Diaspora Identities -- 3. Third : Fantasy : Fantastic possibilities : Theorizing national belonging through Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring -- 4. Fourth : Multigenre : Seeing white : Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad -- 5. Fifth : Fantasy, short story : Fantastically Black woman : Nalo Hopkinson's "A Habit of Waste". 650 0 $a Black people in literature. 650 0 $a American fiction $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Black people $x Race identity. 650 7 $a American fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807048 650 7 $a American fiction $x African American authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807049 650 7 $a Black people in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00834025 650 7 $a Black people $x Race identity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00833987 648 7 $a 1900-2099 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01986215 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117023530.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20230218011043.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FF4AF504AF5911EDB66B324357ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b NIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search