{"product_id":"black-age-oceanic-lifespans-and-the-time-of-black-life-hardback-9781479810888","title":"Black Age; Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life (Hardback) 9781479810888","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBlack Age\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHabiba Ibrahim (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781479810888\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 September 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages, 1 b\/w illustration\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This truly revelatory book uncovers the \u003ci\u003eflesh\u003c\/i\u003e of black age. Through a focus on black untimeliness, Habiba Ibrahim reveals a counter-history of modernity. Ibrahim adds vital new dimensions to the study of blackness as an alternative relation to time. This tremendous book reveals that black life is a state of being alienated from the time of one's own body and a radical refusal of patriarchal adulthood.\" (Margo Natalie Crawford, author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e) \"Habiba Ibrahim's \u003ci\u003eBlack Age\u003c\/i\u003e opens up powerful new vocabularies and paradigms for thinking about Black cultural expression—and indeed Black life. Through beautifully argued analyses of literary texts, Ibrahim produces startling and profound insights into age, temporality, modernity, race, subjectivity, and the very category of the human.\" (Gayle Wald, author of \u003ci\u003eIt's Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television\u003c\/i\u003e) \"Ibrahim's dialectic of exclusion and reclamation advances an alternative way to discern the relationship between the past and the present... \u003ci\u003eBlack Age\u003c\/i\u003e points us to new ways of thinking and interpreting what time it is.\" - ALH Online Review (American Literary History Online Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHONORABLE MENTION, HARRY SHAW AND KATRINA HAZZARD-DONALD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING WORK IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES, GIVEN BY THE POP CULTURE ASSOCIATION\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A view of transatlantic slavery's afterlife and modern Blackness through the lens of age\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Although more than fifty years apart, the murders of Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin share a commonality: Black children are not seen as children. Time and time again, excuses for police brutality and aggression—particularly against Black children— concern the victim \"appearing\" as a threat. But why and how is the perceived \"appearance\" of Black persons so completely separated from common perceptions of age and time? \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBlack Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life\u003c\/i\u003e 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 examines how the history of transatlantic slavery and the constitution of modern Blackness has been reimagined through the embodiment of age. She 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.\u003cbr\u003e Ibrahim asks: What constitutes a normative timeline of maturation for Black girls when \"all the women\"—all the canonically feminized adults—\"are white\"? How does a \"slave\" become a \"man\" when adulthood is foreclosed to Black subjects of any gender? \u003ci\u003eBlack Age\u003c\/i\u003e tracks the struggle between the abuses of Black exclusion from Western humanism and the reclamation of non-normative Black life, arguing that, if some of us are brave, it is because we dare to live lives considered incomprehensible within a schema of \"human time.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591063335192,"sku":"9781479810888","price":54.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/black-age-oceanic-lifespans-and-the-time-of-black-life-hardback-9781479810888","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}