Fugitive Time
Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond
1st Edition
Published on 3. November 2023
288 pages
978-1-4780-2750-8 (ISBN)
Description
Matthew Omelsky theorizes the embodied experience of time in twentieth- and twenty-first-century black art to outline the distinct utopian desire directed at the moment when pain vanishes from the body and mind, bringing with it a form of being that is free of the violence that has consumed blackness.
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Matthew Omelsky is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Rochester.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Black Beyondness 1
1. Toni Morrison's Anachronic Ease 33
2. Aimé Césaire, Wifredo Lam, and the Aesthetics of Surging Life 62
3. Black Audio's Archival Flight 99
4. Sun Ra, Issa Samb, and the Drapetomaniacal Avant-Garde 132
5. Yvonne Vera, NoViolet Bulawayo, and the Imminence of Dreaming Air 172
Coda. Fugitive Ether 205
Notes 209
Bibliography 239
Index 259
Introduction. Black Beyondness 1
1. Toni Morrison's Anachronic Ease 33
2. Aimé Césaire, Wifredo Lam, and the Aesthetics of Surging Life 62
3. Black Audio's Archival Flight 99
4. Sun Ra, Issa Samb, and the Drapetomaniacal Avant-Garde 132
5. Yvonne Vera, NoViolet Bulawayo, and the Imminence of Dreaming Air 172
Coda. Fugitive Ether 205
Notes 209
Bibliography 239
Index 259
