In the Black Fantastic

ISBN-13: 9780500024621 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 304 str.

Ekow Eshun

Spis treści

Foreword by Ralph Rugoff, Director of The Hayward Gallery
Introduction: The Black Fantastic
Chapter 1 Invocation: A Summoning of Spirits
Extract 1: Old Slavery Seen Through Modern
Eyes: Octavia E. Butler's Kindred and Haile
Gerima's Sankofa, by Adriano Elia
African Cosmologies and Black Feminism, by Kameelah Martin
Chapter 2 Migration: Journeys Across Sea and Space
Extract 2: Afronauts: Race in Space, by Ian Bourland
The Space for Race, by Michelle Commander
Chapter 3 Liberation: Dreams of Freedom
Extract 3: Afrofutures: Africa and the Aesthetics of Black Revolution, by Tobias Wofford
Film, Play and Reading Lists

O autorze

Ekow Eshun is a writer, curator and journalist based in London, and former director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. His previous books include Black Gold of the Sun and Africa State of Mind, the latter published by Thames & Hudson in 2020. Michelle D. Commander is the associate director of New York's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She is the author of Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic (2017). Kameelah L. Martin is the director of the African American Studies Program and professor of African American Studies and English at the College of Charleston, North Carolina.