Afrofuturism, 119n3 (intro)
definitions of, 2–3, 7, 58–60, 63, 68, 69, 81, 86
important figures in, 58, 64, 79
and liminality, 2–3, 7, 58–62, 64, 68, 78, 83, 97, 100
in literature, 3, 7, 9, 58, 69, 78, 83, 86
in music, 3, 7, 9, 58–60, 64, 65, 69, 76, 78
in music videos, 6–7, 9, 10, 59, 64, 65–69. See also Badu, Erykah; Butler, Octavia E.; Eshun, Kodwo; Monáe, Janelle
and posthuman liminality, 4, 9, 13, 27, 70, 117
alienation, 2, 81, 83, 86, 120n1 (chap. 4)
characteristics of, 4, 93–94, 97
environment of, 82, 93–94, 107
antebellum South: architecture of, 6
as setting, 8, 39, 48, 51, 86, 87, 89
Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 4–5
assemblage, 10, 14, 40, 42, 45, 51–55
authenticity. See blackness: authentic; essentialism
and Afrofuturist liminality, 58–59, 64–66, 78
as Oblongata, Badoula, 66
and time travel, 64
—works: “Gone Baby, Don’t Be Long,” 64–66
“Next Lifetime,” 64–66
“On & On,” 64
“Window Seat,” 59
Baker, Houston A., 72–73
Beaulieu, Elizabeth Ann, 6, 13, 120n2 (chap. 1)
becoming-subject, 3, 9, 13, 21–22, 24, 27, 29, 31, 34
definitions of, 14–15, 40–41, 44–45. See also Halberstam, Judith [J. Jack]; Livingston, Ira; Morrison, Toni; Williams, Sherley Anne
Beloved (Morrison), 36, 73, 116, 119n1 (chap. 1), 120nn2–3 (chap. 1)
and posthuman community, 45, 78
and posthuman liminality, 8, 11, 12, 13–27, 28, 29
as speculative fiction, 97
Benjamin, Jessica, 21
Beyoncé, 10
birth: of children, 9, 20, 43, 49, 76, 104–06, 108, 112, 116
of self, 105
of stories 72, 73
#blacklivesmatter (Black Lives Matter), 38–39, 119n2 (intro), 120nn1–2 (chap. 2)
authentic, 61–62, 63, 65–67, 69
postmodern, 2
and whiteness, 9, 46, 61, 81, 82–85, 87, 88–89, 91–93. See also posthuman blackness
“Bloodchild” (Butler), 81
blue note, 73
Bradford, K. Tempest, 93–94
Braidotti, Rosi, 3, 40–41, 45, 48, 106
Brown, Michael, 38–39, 119n2 (intro), 120n2 (chap. 2)
Butler, Judith, 55
Butler, Octavia E.: in Afrofuturism, 58, 79
legacy of, 79
and Middle Passage, 9, 80–81, 86–87, 89–90, 94, 97
and multiple consciousness, posthuman, 88–91, 93–97
and posthuman liminality, 9, 81–82, 85, 86–91, 97, 98
and slavery, 80, 81, 82, 87–89, 94
and time travel, 80, 81, 86–87, 89–91
—works: “Bloodchild,” 81; 120n3 (chap. 3)
Dawn, 81
Kindred, 8, 81, 86–92, 96, 97, 98
“A Necessary Being,” 79, 82, 93–97
Caribbean: liminality of, 99–104, 107–08, 110, 113–14
location of, 101
people of, 100–03, 111, 113. See also Glissant, Edouard
Cartwright, Keith, 5–6
on mothering, the reproduction of, 20–21, 22, 24, 25, 32
on relational triangle, 17–18, 20–22, 27–31, 33–34, 35–37, 120n3 (chap. 1)
Clinton, George, 58
clothing industry, 1–2
community, posthuman, 9, 26–27, 39, 41–42, 43–48, 54, 57, 69, 76–78
Corregidora (Jones), 8, 9, 59, 63, 69–78
cyborgs, 1, 3–4, 40, 42, 107, 119n1 (intro)
Dash, Julie, 117
Daughters of the Dust, 6, 9, 97, 98–99, 110–16
and posthuman liminality, 98–99, 113, 117
and the submarine (Glissant), 110, 115–16
and transversality, 110–11, 113
Daughters of the Dust (Dash), 6, 9, 97, 98–99, 110–16
Dawn (Butler), 81
and afterlife, 12, 23, 28, 36, 106, 115
of mother, 14, 21, 23, 28, 36, 99, 104–06, 108, 109
and violence, 6, 14, 38, 40, 56, 95, 99, 102, 104–06, 109, 119n2 (chap. 2), 120nn1–2 (chap. 2)
Deleuze, Gilles, 3, 14, 40–41, 44, 101
Dery, Mark, 59
Dessa Rose (Williams), 9, 39–40, 43–57, 98, 120nn3–4 (chap. 2)
diaspora: African, 8, 9, 23–24, 40, 111, 116, 119n3 (intro)
digital, 60
Dick, Philip K., Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, 1, 59
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Dick), 1, 59
Do Androids Dream of How People Are Sheep? (Franklin), 1, 2, 7, 10
double consciousness, 80, 83–85
Du Bois, W. E. B., 80, 83–85, 92
Elegba, 113
embodiment, 13, 25, 65, 66, 113
and posthuman liminality, 22, 33, 67
Eshun, Kodwo: on Afrofuturism, definitions of, 2, 60, 62, 63, 68, 78, 80–81, 83, 86, 89–90, 92, 93, 97, 119n1 (intro), 120n1 (chap. 4)
on Afrofuturist music, 60, 76, 120n2 (chap. 3)
on technology, 12, 60. See also Afrofuturism
essentialism, 45, 65–66, 93, 96. See also blackness: authentic
Fanon, Frantz, 81, 84–85, 92, 111
black, 6, 113. See also womanism
film, 6–7, 9, 10, 97, 98–99, 110–17
Do Androids Dream of How People Are Sheep?, 1, 2, 7, 10
freedom: creative, 60–61
from influence, 5
from oppression, 42–43, 54–55, 67, 92, 95
from slavery, 50, 81, 108–10, 112. See also liberation
Garner, Bric, 38–39, 119n2 (intro)
Gilroy, Paul, 2, 12, 60, 80, 83–84, 120n1 (chap. 4)
Glissant, Edouard: on Caribbean liminality, 100–04, 107–08, 111, 113–14
on slavery, 100–02
on the submarine, 99, 100–11, 115, 116
on transversality, 101–02, 104–08, 113, 116
“Gone Baby, Don’t Be Long” (Badu), 64–66
Grandt, Jürgen E., 60–62, 65, 73
Grant, Oscar, III, 38, 120n1 (chap. 2)
Guattari, Felix, 3, 14, 40–41, 44, 101
Halberstam, Judith [J. Jack], 12, 22, 40–42, 44, 63
and becoming-subjectivity, 3, 14–15, 22, 29, 33, 41
Haraway, Donna J., 4, 42, 107, 119n1 (intro)
humanism: black, 5–6, 8, 42, 44, 61–62, 71–72, 75
western liberal, 5, 63, 72, 103. See also Badu, Brykah; Jones, Gayl; Weheliye, Alexander G.
identity: formation of, 4, 5–6, 24, 27, 99, 100, 120n3 (chap. 3)
development of, 12, 14, 28–31, 40–41, 54, 63, 69, 109, 110
as performance, 6, 46, 54, 55–56, 62, 88
and politics, 4
as relational, 13, 17, 18, 20–22, 27–31, 33–37. See also agency
psychoanalysis: and psychosexual development; slavery
intersectionality, 4, 6, 44, 45, 56, 101, 105
Jones, Gayl, 75
Corregidora, 8, 9, 59, 63, 69–78
and humanism, black, 71–72, 75
and oral tradition, 70–71, 72, 75
and posthuman community, 69, 76–78
and posthuman liminality, 69, 70, 76
and slavery, 59, 69–70, 72, 78
Kindred (Butler), 8, 81, 86–92, 96, 97, 98
Kubitschek, Missy Dehn, 13, 18, 23–24, 75
Lacan, Jacques, 14–15, 104–05, 111–12
Lacey, Lauren J., 40, 88–90, 98
language: nonrepresentational, 19, 98, 106–07, 108–09, 110–11
and psycho-sexual development, 15, 104–06, 110. See also oral tradition
liberation, 44, 54, 75, 81, 95. See also freedom
Afrofuturist, 2–3, 7, 58–62, 64, 68, 78, 83, 97, 100
Caribbean, 99–104, 107–08, 110, 113–14
posthuman, 3–4, 6–10, 11, 12, 21, 24, 40–41, 44–45, 58–59, 85, 92, 99, 101–03, 107, 117
Livingston, Ira, 12, 22, 40–42, 44, 63
and becoming-subjectivity, 3, 14–15, 22, 29, 33, 41
Loichot, Valérie, 82, 89, 94, 95
Mason, Carol, 63–64
Mayweather, Cindi. See under Monáe, Janelle
McBride, Renisha, 38, 120n1 (chap. 2)
A Mercy (Morrison), 8, 11–12, 27–37
Middle Passage: historical, 2, 13–14, 19–20, 80–81, 82, 90
metaphorical, 9, 80–81, 86–87, 89–90, 94, 97
and modernity, 2, 80–81, 82–83, 86, 120n1 (chap. 4)
semiotics of, 80–81, 82–83, 85, 86, 87, 89–90, 120n1 (chap. 4). See also Butler, Octavia E.; Morrison, Toni
modernism, 2, 4, 73, 80, 83, 85
Monáe, Janelle: and Afrofuturism, 58, 64
and Afrofuturist liminality, 58–60, 64, 66–67, 68, 78
and posthuman liminality, 67
“Q.U.E.E.N.,” 58–59, 66–69
and slavery, 58
and time travel, 58, 64, 66–67, 69. See also Wondaland Arts Society
Montgomery, Maxine L., 33, 35, 36
Moody, Joycelyn K., 43, 45–46, 51
Morgenstern, Naomi, 28, 31, 36, 120n4 (chap. 1)
Morrison, Toni: and becoming-subjectivity, 9, 13, 14, 15, 22, 24, 27, 29, 31, 34
and Middle Passage, 13–14, 19–20, 80, 83, 120n1 (chap. 4)
and mothering, non-biological, 26, 29–30, 31
and mothering, the reproduction of, 20–21, 22, 24, 25, 32
and posthuman community, 26–27
and posthuman liminality, 11–13, 15, 19, 21–24, 27–31, 33–36
and relational triangles, 17–18, 20–22, 27–31, 33–34, 35–37, 120n3 (chap. 1)
—works: Beloved, 8, 11, 12, 13–27, 28, 29, 36, 45, 73, 78, 97, 98, 116, 119n1 (chap. 1), 120nn2–3 (chap. 1)
mothering: non-biological, 26, 29–30, 31, 44, 48, 121n5 (chap. 5)
the re-production of, 20–21, 22, 24, 25, 32. See also Chodorow, Nancy; Morrison, Toni; Williams, Sherley Anne
multiple consciousness, posthuman, 81–82, 85, 86, 88–91, 93–97. See also Butler, Octavia E.; posthumanism
Murray, Albert, 73–74
music videos, 6–7, 9, 10, 59, 64, 65–69
“A Necessary Being” (Butler), 79, 82, 93–97
neo–slave narratives, 8, 57, 59, 69, 98–99
“Next Lifetime” (Badu), 64–66
Oblongata, Badoula. See under Badu, Brykah
“On & On” (Badu), 64
ontology, 47, 62, 82, 84, 96, 97, 103, 111
oral tradition, 70–71, 72, 75. See also Jones, Gayl
patriarchy, 40, 43, 52, 54, 57
police brutality, 38, 120nn1–2 (chap. 2)
postcolonialism, 5, 6, 63, 100, 114
posthuman blackness: and Afrofuturism, 58, 59, 65, 81, 92
definitions of, 2, 4, 9, 71, 92, 99
and liminality, 59, 65, 66, 81, 99, 100, 117
posthumanism: and community, 9, 26–27, 39, 41–42, 43–48, 54, 57, 69, 76–78
and liminality, 3–4, 6–10, 11, 12, 21, 24, 40–41, 44–45, 58–59, 85, 92, 99, 101–03, 107, 117
and solidarity, 9, 39–40, 41–54, 56–57, 81, 116. See also Butler, Octavia E.; Dash, Julie; Jones, Gayl; Monáe, Janelle; Morrison, Toni; multiple consciousness, posthuman; Thomas, Sheree Renée; Williams, Sherley Anne
poststructuralism, 4, 5, 6, 63
psychoanalysis: 20–22, 82, 107–08
and psychosexual development, 15, 19–20, 99, 104–06, 110, 120n3 (chap.1), 121n3 (chap. 5). See also becoming-subject; language; relational triangle
Puar, Jasbir K., 4, 40, 119n1 (intro)
“Q.U.E.E.N.” (Monáe), 58–59, 66–69
racism, 41, 48, 56, 88, 94, 102, 116
relational triangle, 17–18, 20–22, 27–31, 33–34, 35–37, 120n3 (chap. 1). See also Chodorow, Nancy; Morrison, Toni
Rody, Caroline, 6, 13, 23, 26, 63, 113, 116
science fiction, 1, 7–9, 69, 79, 81, 83, 86, 94, 97, 119n3 (intro). See also speculative fiction
slavery: and cultural identity, 8, 62, 94, 100–02
and family, 15, 18–19, 21, 29, 33–34
freedom from, 50, 81, 108–10, 112
and individual identity, 8, 27, 35, 55–56, 89, 109–10, 120n4 (chap. 1), 120n3 (chap. 3)
and modernity, 2, 80, 82, 120n4 (chap. 4)
and trauma, 11, 13, 31, 72, 82. See also Butler, Octavia E.; Dash, Julie; Glissant, Edouard; Jones, Gayl; Middle Passage; Monáe, Janelle; Morrison, Toni; neo–slave narratives; Thomas, Sheree Renée; Williams, Sherley Anne
solidarity, posthuman, 9, 39–40, 41–54, 56–57, 81, 116
speculative fiction, 9, 42, 78, 81, 97, 98–99, 119n3 (intro). See also science fiction
Spillers, Hortense, 5, 71, 120n3 (chap. 3), 121n3 (chap. 5), 121n5 (chap. 5)
Spratt, Sam, 58, 120n1 (chap. 3)
submarine (Glissant), 99, 100–11, 115, 116
in works by Dash, Julie, 110, 115–16
in works by Thomas, Sheree Renée, 104, 106, 108–10
Sun Ra, 58
Tal, Kalí, 7, 12, 64, 100, 119n1 (intro)
Thomas, Sheree Renée: “How Sukie Cross de Big Wata,” 9, 98, 99, 104–10
and language, nonrepresentational, 98, 106–07, 108–09, 110–11
human liminality, 9, 99, 104, 116
and psychosexual development, 104–06, 110
and the submarine (Glissant), 104, 106, 108–10
and transversality, 104
in works by Badu, Brykah, 64
in works by Butler, Octavia E., 80, 81, 86–87, 89–91
in works by Monáe, Janelle, 58, 64, 66–67, 69
transversality, 101–02, 104–08, 113, 116. See also Dash, Julie; Glissant, Edouard; Thomas, Sheree Renée
and slavery, 11, 13, 31, 72, 82
triple consciousness, 81, 84–85, 95
Warren, Calvin L., 80–81, 83, 85
Weheliye, Alexander G., 41–43, 45, 47–48, 51, 52, 53, 54–55, 64, 107
on humanism, black, 5–6, 8, 44, 55, 62. See also assemblage
whiteness: and blackness, 9, 46, 61, 81, 82–85, 87, 88–89, 91–93
white supremacy, 38, 46–47, 88, 91–92, 94
and posthuman multiple consciousness, 82, 83–84, 85, 89, 91, 93, 95
and posthuman solidarity, 39–41, 43, 50, 53, 54, 57
Wild Seed (Butler), 80, 81, 97
Williams, Sherley Anne: and becoming-subjectivity, 44
Dessa Rose, 9, 39–40, 43–57, 98, 120nn3–4 (chap. 2)
and mothering, non-biological, 44, 48
and posthuman community, 9, 39, 43–48, 54, 57
and posthuman liminality, 43, 46, 48, 51, 56–57
and posthuman solidarity, 9, 39–40, 43–54, 56–57
“Window Seat” (Badu), 59
womanism, 6, 40. See also feminism: black
Wondaland Arts Society, 66–68
Wyatt, Jean, 15, 16, 18, 26, 31–32, 33, 120n4 (chap. 1)
Wynter, Sylvia: on the “human,” 5, 62, 103, 106, 107, 111–12