Towards Post-Blackness

The book is a detailed introduction to Post-Blackness as a literary aesthetic, tracing its emergence to the philosophical movement that defined itself in the visual arts towards the end of the twentieth century.

Autorentext

Lekha Roy is an academic, writer, and critic based in India. She received her Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, and has published several articles on race, trauma, and power relations. Her work focuses on the role of language and images in the dynamics of identity formation, with special emphasis on changing contours of the personal and the political. Lekha Roy can be reached at lekharoy91@gmail.com.

Inhalt

Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Transcultural Space in The Yellow House on the Corner and Museum History and Historicity in Thomas and Beulah and On the Bus with Rosa Parks Deconstructing Myths in Grace Notes and Mother Love Redefining Black Aesthetics in American Smooth and Sonata Mulattica Jouissance: The Philosopher's Playlist for the Apocalypse Conclusion Index.