Research Catalog

Title

Love and abolition : the social life of Black queer performance / Alison Rose Reed.

Author

Reed, Alison Rose

Publication

• Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2022]
• ©2022

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Details

Description

xxii, 260 pages : illustrations (black and white); 23 cm.

Summary

• "Examines queer performance and affective response in the Black radical tradition-using work by James Baldwin, Ntozake Shange, Sharon Bridgforth, and vanessa german-to demonstrate how love animates the contemporary prison abolition movement"--
• "In Love and Abolition, Alison Rose Reed traces how the social life of Black queer performance from the 1960s to the present animates the unfinished work of abolition. She grounds social justice-oriented reading and activist practices specifically in the movement to abolish the prison industrial complex, with far-reaching implications for how we understand affective response as a mobilizing force for revolutionary change. Reed identifies abolition literature as an emergent field of inquiry that emphasizes social relationships in the ongoing struggle to dismantle systems of coercion, criminalization, and control. Focusing on love as an affective modality and organizing tool rooted in the Black radical tradition's insistence on collective sociality amidst unrelenting state violence, Reed provides fresh readings of visionaries such as James Baldwin, Ntozake Shange, Sharon Bridgforth, and vanessa german. Both abolitionist manifesto and examination of how Black queer performance offers affective modulations of tough and tender love, Love and Abolition ultimately calls for a critical reconsideration of the genre of prison literature--and the role of the humanities--during an age of mass incarceration." --

Series Statement

Black performance and cultural criticism

Uniform Title

Black performance and cultural criticism.

Subject

• Alternatives to imprisonment
• Prison abolition movements
• Love
• Queer theory
• African American prisoners > Social conditions
• Performing arts > Social aspects
• Radicalism
• American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
• American literature > African American authors

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-250) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Abolition literature: calling on tough and tender love -- Listening for Emmett Till: James Baldwin, Laurie Carlos, and Black love as survival -- Transforming harm into healing: Ntozake Shange and the Combahee River Collective -- Concrete utopias: activating spirit in the performance worlds of Sharon Bridgforth and Josefina B̀ez -- Love in the streets: Stephanie Leigh Batiste, vanessa german, and vigils for state violence -- Contraband love: humanities behind bars and abolition pedagogy -- Epilogue: Abolition as renegade presence.

Call Number

Sc E 22-1005

ISBN

• 9780814215067
• 0814215068
• 9780814258194
• 0814258190

LCCN

2021042603

OCLC

1261306753

Author

Reed, Alison Rose, author.

Title

Love and abolition : the social life of Black queer performance / Alison Rose Reed.

Publisher

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Black performance and cultural criticism

Black performance and cultural criticism.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-250) and index.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 22-1005