Title:
Becoming human : matter and meaning in an antiblack world
Author:
Publication Date:
2020
Publication Information:
New York : New York University Press, [2020]
Physical Description:
303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781479890040
9781479830374
Abstract:
""Becoming Human" explores matter and meaning in an antiblack world"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
On becoming human : an introduction -- Losing manhood : plasticity, animality, and opacity in the (neo)slave narrative -- Sense of things : empiricism and world in Nalo Hopkinson's Brown girl in the ring -- 'Not our own:' sex, genre, and the insect poetics of Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild" -- Organs of war : measurement and ecologies of dematerialization in the works of Wangechi Mutu and Audre Lorde -- Coda : towards a somatic theory of necropower.
Conference Subject:
Language:
English
Additional Language:
In English.
Available:1
Library  | Material Type | Shelf Location | Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Juan de Fuca Branch | Adult non-fiction book | Nonfiction | 809.8896 JAC | 39066041195955 | Nonfiction |
