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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 4–13.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Sybil Newton Cooksey; Tashima Thomas Abstract The introduction presents Afro‐Gothic as an aesthetic and theoretical framework for understanding the various works in the special issue, which includes essays, interviews, a playlist, and a roundtable. Taking up Cauleen Smith's Crow Requiem (2015...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 62–85.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Sheri-Marie Harrison Abstract A reprint from a 2018 issue of the Journal of West Indian Literature devoted to Marlon James, this essay engages two of the West Indian writer's novels, John Crow's Devil and The Book of Night Women , under the rubric of the Gothic. By shifting focus from the violence...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 16–35.
Published: 01 October 2022
... the protagonists of Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits (1989) and Barry Jenkins's Moonlight (2016) stage black unbelonging through various Gothic conventions. Ultimately the article champions alternatives to phenomenology simpliciter that are ephemerally indexable by what it calls “black necromancy...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 38–59.
Published: 01 October 2022
... and untreated raw sewage. In what may be viewed as the Gothic trope of the “poisoned well,” the Flint water crisis has directly affected a mostly African American population where 45 percent of Flint's residents are living below the poverty line. This essay positions the Flint water crisis in conversation...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 162–182.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Sybil Newton Cooksey; Tashima Thomas; Leila Taylor; Lea Anderson; John Jennings; Paul Miller (DJ Spooky) Abstract The roundtable gathers specialists dedicated to thinking through the Afro‐Gothic as a conceptual approach to black aesthetics and as a theoretical framework. In the spirit...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 142–159.
Published: 01 October 2022
...A. J. Muhammad; Desi Moreno-Penson Abstract The introduction to this article provides an overview of three plays in the Nuyorican Gothic cycle, by multi‐hyphenate theater artist Desi Moreno‐Penson, which have been produced over the past two decades. The interview portion features a conversation...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 130–139.
Published: 01 October 2022
... that the mouth is “the most important of all human features for the grotesque,” this article examines the disparities between different renderings of these ontological black holes and their disparate implications in horror and g/Gothic texts. While the Scream visualizes terror's sonic expression, this article...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 88–117.
Published: 01 October 2022
... with an occasion to think about how the gothic character of black life emerges in the sensual and sensorial performance of mourning and artful response to grief. Works Cited Alexander Elizabeth . “ Can You Be BLACK and Look at This? ” In Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America , edited...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 120–127.
Published: 01 October 2022
... truth, is a deeply disturbing image and a generative point of entry into the psychic terror of black being in the afterlife of slavery. Thus the tracks in this playlist explore the impressionistic and visceral qualities of the Afro‐Gothic mindset through songs that lyrically and sonically express themes...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 1.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Alessandra Raengo; Lauren McLeod Cramer Copyright © 2022 Alessandra Raengo and Lauren McLeod Cramer 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). liquid blackness 6.2, “Afro-Gothic,” is the first guest-edited issue...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 95–119.
Published: 01 October 2021
...-Up: a revenge dance and Bronx Gothic . Okpokwasili recently co-curated the Danspace Project Platform Utterances from the Chorus . An installation work was included in the New Museum show “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America.” Her latest works—“on the way undone,” an homage to Brick...
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