{"product_id":"reclaiming-time-race-temporality-and-black-expressive-culture-paperback-softback-9780810148222","title":"Reclaiming Time; Race, Temporality, and Black Expressive Culture (Paperback \/ softback) 9780810148222","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eReclaiming Time\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRace, Temporality, and Black Expressive Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eIsaiah Matthew Wooden (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780810148222\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 31 May 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages, 10 b\u0026amp;w halftones\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm, 0.454 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\"Isaiah Wooden's interdisciplinary approach - examining theater, visual art, and film - distinguishes it from other recent books on the topic of Black aesthetics and temporality. \u003ci\u003eReclaiming Time\u003c\/i\u003e will join a growing body of work on Black artistic production and the notion of time. A meticulously researched and compellingly argued book, Wooden thoughtfully and thoroughly argues that contemporary Black expressive culture continues to tell us something about the way Black people enact agency over their lives by resisting dominant categories and uses of time.\" - E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eReclaiming Time \u003c\/i\u003eprovides fresh insight into the key concepts of reclamation and temporality at the intersection of theater and performance studies. Mining the unique quality of culture to consider how artists offer alternative temporalities that mitigate the impacts of white supremacy, Isaiah Wooden responds to the question of what other worlds are possible outside the regulatory framework of Western standard time. With artful analysis and engagement, this book brings to bear a new set of future possibilities.\" - Soyica Colbert, Georgetown University\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\u003eShowing how twenty-first-century Black theater and media arts challenge dominant conceptualizations of time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReclaiming Time: Race, Temporality, and Black Expressive Culture\u003c\/i\u003e examines works by contemporary Black artists in multiple media\u0026amp;mdash drama, film, performance art, and photography\u0026amp;mdash that trouble dominant conceptualizations and normative configurations of time in relation to race in the twenty-first century. Isaiah Matthew Wooden explores the ways in which an intentional and sometimes ludic engagement with time and temporality has enabled these artists to probe urgent questions and themes concerning the conditions of contemporary Black life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWooden surveys a diverse array of performance-based and visual texts to explore the rich practices of contemporary Black expressive culture: dramatic works by playwrights Eisa Davis, Tarell Alvin McCraney, and Robert O'Hara performance art and photography by visual artists Jefferson Pinder and LaToya Ruby Frazier and feature-length cinema by director-producer Tanya Hamilton. These works expose normative time as specious and evidence the transformative potential in honing practices of Black temporal experimentation and intervention. By putting this cross-disciplinary set of texts in conversation with each other, Wooden sheds new light on the shrewd ways that they each reflect an investment in unbinding time from the exigencies of normativity and teleology, as well as on their shared commitments to reclaiming time to reimagine and represent Blackness in all its multiplicities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface: Loss and the Time of Blackness \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: '\u003cbr\u003eTime Is for White People'\u003cbr\u003e : Or Reclaiming Time in Contemporary Black Expressive Culture \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Nation Time, Then and Again: Eisa Davis and Tanya Hamilton'\u003cbr\u003es Black Power Nostalgia \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2 Defamiliarized Pasts and Distant Presents: Robert O'\u003cbr\u003eHara and Tarell Alvin McCraney'\u003cbr\u003es Black Queer Temporal Interventions \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3 The Art of Black Endurance: Jefferson Pinder'\u003cbr\u003es Time-Sensitive Performances \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4 Black Life in the Wake of Deindustrialization: LaToya Ruby Frazier'\u003cbr\u003es Photographic Time \u003cbr\u003e Postscript: Visualizing Blackness in the Future Tense \u003cbr\u003e Acknolwedgements \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574221009176,"sku":"9780810148222","price":23.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/reclaiming-time-race-temporality-and-black-expressive-culture-paperback-softback-9780810148222","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}