Bibliograph

Black utopias, speculative life and the music of other worlds, Jayna J. Brown

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Black utopias, speculative life and the music of other worlds, Jayna J. Brown

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Black utopias

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

307042

Responsibility statement

Jayna J. Brown

Sub title

speculative life and the music of other worlds

Summary

"Engaging with the work of Black musicians, writers, and women mystics, Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as an occasion to explore new states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture."--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Ecstasy -- Along the Psychic Highway: Black Women Mystics and Utopias of the Ecstatic -- Lovely Sky Boat: Alice Coltrane and the Metaphysics of Sound -- Evolution -- Our Place is Among the Stars: Octavia E. Butler and the Preservation of Species -- Speculative Life: Utopia Without the Human -- Sense and Matter -- In the Realm of the Senses: Heterotopias of Subjectivity, Desire, and Discourse -- The Freedom Not to Be: Sun Ra's Alternative Ontology

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