Black Madness: Mad Blackness

by Theri Alyce Pickens

Book Overview

In Black Madness:: Mad Blackness Ther Alyce Pickens rethinks the relationship between Blackness and disability, unsettling the common theorization that they are mutually constitutive. 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. These creative writer-theorists formulate new parameters for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478004045
• ISBN13: 9781478004042
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"