Description
| Product ID: | 9780814748336 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Sexual Cultures |
| Title: | Queer Times, Black Futures |
| Authors: | Author: Kara Keeling |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Media studies, Media studies, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, Gay studies (Gay men) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Finalist, 2019 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ StudiesA profound intellectual engagement with Afrofuturism and the philosophical questions of space and time Queer Times, Black Futures considers the promises and pitfalls of imagination, technology, futurity, and liberation as they have persisted in and through racial capitalism. Kara Keeling explores how the speculative fictions of cinema, music, and literature that center Black existence provide scenarios wherein we might imagine alternative worlds, queer and otherwise. In doing so, Keeling offers a sustained meditation on contemporary investments in futurity, speculation, and technology, paying particular attention to their significance to queer and Black freedom. Keeling reads selected works, such as Sun Ra’s 1972 film Space is the Place and the 2005 film The Aggressives, to juxtapose the Afrofuturist tradition of speculative imagination with the similar “speculations” of corporate and financial institutions. In connecting a queer, cinematic reordering of time with the new possibilities technology offers, Keeling thinks with and through a vibrant conception of the imagination as a gateway to queer times and Black futures, and the previously unimagined spaces that they can conjure. Finalist, 2019 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies |
| Imprint Name: | New York University Press |
| Publisher Name: | New York University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-04-16 |
