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Black Madness: Mad Blackness Pickens Ther Alyce In Black Madness:: Mad Blackness Ther Alyce Pickens rethinks the relationship between Blackness and disability, unsettling the common theorization that…
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Black Madness: Mad Blackness Pickens Ther Alyce
In Black Madness:: Mad Blackness Ther Alyce Pickens rethinks the relationship between Blackness and disability, unsettling the common theorization that they are mutually constitutive. 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.
She examines how Hopkinson's Midnight Robber theorizes mad Blackness and how Due's African Immortals series contest 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. The theorizations of race and
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