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Showing how twenty-first-century Black theater and media arts challenge dominant conceptualizations of time
Reclaiming Time: Race, Temporality, and Black Expressive Culture examines works by contemporary Black artists in multiple media— drama, film, performance art, and photography— that trouble dominant conceptualizations and normative configurations of time in relation to race in the twenty-first century. Isaiah Matthew Wooden explores the ways in which an intentional and sometimes ludic engagement with time and temporality has enabled these artists to probe urgent questions and themes concerning the conditions of contemporary Black life.
Wooden surveys a diverse array of performance-based and visual texts to explore the rich practices of contemporary Black expressive culture: dramatic works by playwrights Eisa Davis, Tarell Alvin McCraney, and Robert O'Hara performance art and photography by visual artists Jefferson Pinder and LaToya Ruby Frazier and feature-length cinema by director-producer Tanya Hamilton. These works expose normative time as specious and evidence the transformative potential in honing practices of Black temporal experimentation and intervention. By putting this cross-disciplinary set of texts in conversation with each other, Wooden sheds new light on the shrewd ways that they each reflect an investment in unbinding time from the exigencies of normativity and teleology, as well as on their shared commitments to reclaiming time to reimagine and represent Blackness in all its multiplicities.
Contents
Preface: Loss and the Time of Blackness
Introduction: 'Time Is for White People' : Or Reclaiming Time in Contemporary Black Expressive Culture
Chapter Nation Time, Then and Again: Eisa Davis and Tanya Hamilton's Black Power Nostalgia
Chapter 2 Defamiliarized Pasts and Distant Presents: Robert O'Hara and Tarell Alvin McCraney's Black Queer Temporal Interventions
Chapter 3 The Art of Black Endurance: Jefferson Pinder's Time-Sensitive Performances
Chapter 4 Black Life in the Wake of Deindustrialization: LaToya Ruby Frazier's Photographic Time
Postscript: Visualizing Blackness in the Future Tense
Acknolwedgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index
