Books written by Kara Keeling

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  Queer Times, Black Futures

  Trade in tattooed Maori heads was relatively common in the nineteenth century and the ship's captain William Dana gave the East Indian Museum in Salem the 'embalmed head of a New Zealand Chief' (Russell, Roving Mariners: Australian ...

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  Queer Times, Black Futures

  A serious intellectual engagement with Afrofuturism and the philosophical questions of space and time Queer Times, Black Futures considers the promises and pitfalls of imagination, technology, futurity, and liberation as they have persisted ...

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  Queer Times, Black Futures

  In this regard, The Aggressives illuminates a view of history as, in words from Looking for Langston, “the smiler with the knife.”31 This metaphor, like poetry, functions affectively, calling forth an image of history as, say, ...

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  Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies

  Race, sex, and gender.

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  The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense

  ... The Folklore of Consensus, xii. 3 Hardt and Negri, Empire, 22–23. Multitude was released as The Witch's Flight was going to press. 4 Ibid., 23–24. 5 I defer to a later project a more sustained and careful consideration of the ...

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  The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense

  DIVThrough an analysis of filmic representations of Black femininity, and the Black Femme in particular, this book highlights the ways "the cinematic" structures both racist and sexist portrayals, and their potential undoing./div "Kara ...