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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Brown, Jayna, 1966-     Subjects     Philosophical anthropology.     Philosophy, Black.     Utopias.     Racism.     Blacks -- Attitudes.     Blacks -- Race identity.     Utopias in literature.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Brown, Jayna, 1966-       by title:      Black utopias : spec...       by call number:      128 B878b     Search the Web     Brown, Jayna, 1966-     Philosophical anthropology.     Philosophy, Black.     Utopias.     Racism.     Blacks -- Attitudes.     Blacks -- Race identity.     Utopias in literature.       MARC Display

Black utopias : speculative life and the music of other worlds / Jayna Brown. by Brown, Jayna, 1966- Duke University Press, 2021. Call #: 128 B878b Subjects Philosophical anthropology.   Philosophy, Black.   Utopias.   Racism.   Blacks -- Attitudes.   Blacks -- Race identity.   Utopias in literature. ISBN:  9781478011675 (hc.) 9781478010548 Description:  ix, 212 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Summary:  "Black Utopias posits a concept of utopia made possible by black people's exclusion from the human and expressed through the ecstatic practices, community creation, speculative fiction and music. Jayna Brown explores the practices and works of 19th century black women mystics as well as 20th century musicians and speculative fiction writers including mystics Sojourner Truth and Rebecca Cox Jackson, musicians Alice Coltrane and Sun Ra, and writers Samuel Delany and Octavia Butler"--From publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 128 B878b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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