NYU Press
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Fall 2021
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Literary Studies
BLACK AGE
Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life HABIBA IBRAHIM A view of transatlantic slavery’s afterlife and modern Blackness through the lens of age Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life posits age, life stages, and lifespans as a central lens through which to view Blackness, particularly with regard to the history of transatlantic slavery. Focusing on Black literary culture of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Habiba Ibrahim argues that Black age—through nearly four centuries of subjugation— has become contingent, malleable, and suited for the needs of enslavement. As a result, rather than the number of years lived or a developmental life stage, Black age came to signify exchange value, historical under-development, timelessness, and other fantasies borne out of Black exclusion from the human. Habiba Ibrahim is Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington. She is the recipient of African American Review’s 2016 Darwin T. Turner prize and author of Troubling the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism.
September 2021 272 pages • 6 x 9 1 black & white illustration Paper • $28.00S(£20.99) 9781479810895 Cloth • $89.00X(£71.00) 9781479810888 Literary Studies
DISABILITIES OF THE COLOR LINE
Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present DENNIS TYLER Reveals how disability and disablement have shaped Black social life in America Through both law and custom, the color line has cast Black people as innately disabled and thus unfit for freedom, incapable of self-governance, and contagious within the national body politic. Dennis Tyler argues that Black authors and activists have consistently avowed what he calls the disabilities of the color line: the historical and ongoing anti-Black systems of division that maim, immobilize, and stigmatize Black people. In doing so, Tyler reveals how Black writers and activists have engaged in a politics and aesthetics of redress: modes of resistance that, in the pursuit of racial and disability justice, acknowledged the disabling violence perpetrated by anti-Black regimes in order to conceive or engender dynamic new worlds that account for people of all abilities. Dennis Tyler is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Fordham University.
February 2022 336 pages • 6 x 9 5 black & white illustrations Paper • $30.00S(£22.99) 9781479831128 Cloth • $89.00X(£71.00) 9781479805846 In Crip Literary Studies
