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Speculative aesthetics: time, space, and the Black subject in 20th and 21st century African American literature

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Speculative aesthetics: time, space, and the Black subject in 20th and 21st century African American literature
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Regina Danielle
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Michelle Stephens
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Rutgers University
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In “Speculative Aesthetics: Time, Space, and the Black Subject in 20th and 21st Century African American Literature” I engage the speculative as an umbrella term for any literary device or trope that exists beyond the boundaries of realism, rather than as a lesser acknowledged sub-genre used by authors within the African American literary canon. Though seemingly marginal, speculative themes, characters, and settings are fairly common within the African American literary canon. Therefore, one crucial element of my argument is that the speculative should be thought of as an important component of black aesthetics employed by authors of African American literature to tackle issues that are central to the canon and to black life in America. One such issue is the possibility, or lack thereof, of untethering the American black subject from the afterlives of enslavement. Authors of African American literature have been using speculative devices to create breaks or gaps in the time and space of the American nation in order to disconnect the American black subject from the afterlives of enslavement since the 19th century. “Speculative Aesthetics” focuses on the speculative means by which authors of African American literature move the American black subject out of empty time and abstract space to the future.
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Literatures in English
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American literature -- African American authors -- 20th century
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American literature -- African American authors -- 21st century
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Speculative fiction, American
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Slavery in literature -- Unites States
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