![]() ![]() The theorizations of race and disability that emerge from these works, Pickens demonstrates, challenge the paradigms of subjectivity that white supremacy and ableism enforce, thereby pointing to the potential for new forms of radical politics. She examines how Hopkinson's Midnight Robber theorizes mad Blackness and how Due's African Immortals series contests dominant definitions of the human. ![]() Pickens considers Butler's Fledgling as an archive of Black madness that demonstrates how race and ability shape subjectivity while constructing the building blocks for antiracist and anti-ableist futures. These creative writer-theorists formulate new parameters for thinking through Blackness and madness. Pickens shows how Black speculative and science fiction authors such as Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, and Tananarive Due craft new worlds that reimagine the intersection of Blackness and madness. Book excerpt: In Black Madness :: Mad Blackness Therí Alyce Pickens rethinks the relationship between Blackness and disability, unsettling the common theorization that they are mutually constitutive. If My Soul to Keep, published in 1997, is a story about realizing you have fallen in love, married, and birthed a child of a monster, then My Soul to Take - (the 4th installment in Tananarive Dues fantastic African-Immortals series) is a story about willingly falling in love with a monster. This book was released on with total page 176 pages. Book Synopsis Black Madness by : Therí Alyce Pickensĭownload or read book Black Madness written by Therí Alyce Pickens and published by Duke University Press. ![]()
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