Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination

Honorable Mention for the 2022 Modern Language Association Prize for an Edited Collection

Interrogates how artists have created new ways to imagine the past of American slavery

From Kara Walker’s hellscape antebellum silhouettes to Paul Beatty’s bizarre twist on slavery in The Sellout and from Colson Whitehead’s literal Underground Railroad to Jordan Peele’s body-snatching Get Out, this volume offers commentary on contemporary artistic works that present, like musical deep cuts, some challeng...