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Becoming human : matter and meaning in an antiblack world /

Jackson, Zakiyyah Iman,

Becoming human : matter and meaning in an antiblack world / Zakiyyah Iman Jackson. - New York New York University Press 2020 - 303 p. illustrations ; 24 cm - Sexual cultures .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

""Becoming Human" explores matter and meaning in an antiblack world"--

ISBN: 9781479890040 9781479830374

LCCN: 2019039520

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Literature--Black authors--History and criticism.
African diaspora in literature.
Black people in literature.
Africans in literature.
Black people--Race identity.
Humanism in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.

LC Class. No.: PN841 / .J33 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 809.8896 JAC-Z