Decoloniality in the Break of Global Blackness

<p>This book contextualized by the violence of globalization investigates the fungible fugitive and untenable experiences of Black being and time through a decolonial poethics of global*Blackness. In so doing it introduces innovative readings of coloniality/decoloniality by threading its meaning and movement through the “problem” of Blackness.</p><p>It argues that global*Blackness is the complexly entangled other side of decoloniality as movement method and poethics for radical new worlds. The essays explore this through inter/transdisciplinary creative and decolonial standpoints whether from prison abolitionist demands to Afrofuturist imaginaries or by seeing through Black mirrors. It emphasizes the paradoxical characteristics of global*Blackness—its spectral quality of being in and out of modernity's self-narrative—to provide a way of dwelling with global Blackness as a force that is neither “properly” constituted by corporeality nor thinkable in ontological terms <i>determined</i> by modern power.</p><p>The book will be of interest to academics researchers and students in the fields of social sciences cultural studies postcolonial studies as well as cultural practitioners art educators artists cultural activists and those institutions that seek to decolonize imaginaries thought practices and methods. Given its diverse offerings it will also be of interest to upper-level undergraduates graduate students and academics.</p>