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.
| ISBN: | 9780814215067 |
| Publication date: | 11th February 2022 |
| Author: | Alison Rose Reed |
| Publisher: | The Ohio State University Press an imprint of Ohio State University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 262 pages |
| Series: | Black Performance and Cultural Criticism |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: plays and playwrights Penology and punishment |
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.
Love and Abolition features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Penology and punishment
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Love and Abolition was written by Alison Rose Reed and published by The Ohio State University Press an imprint of Ohio State University Press
Love and Abolition has 262 pages
Yes it is part of Black Performance and Cultural Criticism series