Evidence of Things Not Seen : : Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions / / Rhonda D. Frederick.

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 bl...

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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (222 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Prologue: Revelations in Black . . . and Popular
  • Introduction
  • 1. First—Mystery: Fantastically Black Blanche White: BarbaraNeely’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”
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author