TY - BOOK ID - 133893400 TI - Love and abolition : the social life of Black queer performance PY - 2022 SN - 9780814258194 9780814215067 0814258190 0814215068 PB - Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Alternatives to imprisonment. KW - Prison abolition movements. KW - Love. KW - Queer theory. KW - African American prisoners KW - Performing arts KW - Radicalism. KW - American literature KW - Social conditions. KW - Social aspects. KW - African American authors KW - History and criticism. KW - African American authors. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:133893400 AB - "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." -- ER -