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Janelle Monae's Queer Afrofuturism: Defying Every Label by Dan Hassler-Forest 9781978826687

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Singer. Dancer. Movie star. Activist. Queer icon. Afrofuturist. Working class heroine. Time traveler. Prophet. Feminist. Android. Dirty Computer.

Janelle Monae is all these things and more, making her one of the most fascinating artists to emerge in the twenty-first century. This provocative new study explores how Monae's work has connected different media platforms to strengthen and enhance new movements in art, theory, and politics. It considers not only Monae's groundbreaking albums The ArchAndroid, The Electric Lady, and Dirty Computer, but also Monae's work as an actress in such films as Hidden Figures and Antebellum, as well as her soundtrack appearances in socially-engaged projects ranging from I May Destroy You to Us. Examining Monae as a cultural icon whose work is profoundly intersectional, this book maps how she is actively reshaping discourses around race, gender, sexuality, and capitalism. Tracing Monae's performances of joy, desire, pain, and hope across a wide range of media forms, it shows how she imagines Afrofuturist, posthumanist, and postcapitalist utopias, while remaining grounded in the realities of being a Black woman in a white-dominated industry. This is an exciting introduction to an audacious innovator whose work offers us fresh ways to talk about identity, desire, and power.

About the Author
DAN HASSLER-FOREST is an assistant professor of media studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He is the author of Capitalist Superheroes and Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Politics: Transmedia Storytelling Beyond Capitalism.

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"An expert critic of the ideological construction of transmedia worlds, Dan Hassler-Forest offers a tour de force analysis of virtuoso music and media artist Janelle Monae as a vernacular theorist and intersectional figure. The resulting book makes a compelling case that her interventions into popular culture may help to shape how we collectively imagine our futures and the world according to Janelle Monae is a better one by far." -- Henry Jenkins * co-editor of Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies of Creative Social Change *
"Building on a close reading of the transformative potential central to Afrofuturism, Janelle Monae's Queer Afrofuturism highlights how Monae's mix of speculation and liberation shines a light on acceptance, care, and community central to Afrofuturism's appeal. Carefully framing intersectional concerns around bodies and power expressed in Monae's artistic work allows Hassler-Forest to provide an intriguing examination of an artist who has quickly come to embody the transformative potential of black speculative practice." -- Julian C. Chambliss * co-editor of Cities Imagined: The African Diaspora in Media and History *
"Hassler-Forest clarifies why artist-activists like Monae are so central not only to how we can imagine a future that is free from the strictures of white supremacy but also to how we can harness the power of utopian thinking in the here and the now." -- TreaAndrea Russworm * author of From Madea to Media Mogul: Theorizing Tyler Perry *
Pg. 99: Dan Hassler-Forest's "Janelle Monae's Queer Afrofuturism" * The Page 99 Test/Campaign for the American Reader *



Book Information
ISBN 9781978826687
Author Dan Hassler-Forest
Format Paperback
Page Count 186
Imprint Rutgers University Press
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Weight(grams) 254g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm

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