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BLACK UTOPIAS - JAYNA BROWN KARTONIERT (TB)

In Black Utopias Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as a way of exploring alternative
states of being  doing  and imagining in Black culture. Musical  literary  and mystic practices
become utopian enclaves in which Black people engage in modes of creative worldmaking. Brown
explores the lives and work of Black women mystics Sojourner Truth and Rebecca Cox Jackson 
musicians Alice Coltrane and Sun Ra  and the work of speculative fiction writers Samuel Delany
and Octavia Butler as they decenter and destabilize the human  radically refusing liberal
humanist ideas of subjectivity and species. Brown demonstrates that engaging in utopian
practices Black subjects imagine and manifest new genres of existence and forms of
collectivity. For Brown  utopia consists of those moments in the here and now when those
excluded from the category human jump into other onto-epistemological realms. Black
people-untethered from the hope of rights  recognition  or redress-celebrate themselves as
elements in a cosmic effluvium.

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