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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Ilka Saal and Bertram D. Ashe -- 1. The Blackest Blackness: Slavery and the Satire of Kara Walker Derek Conrad Murray -- 2. Three-Fifths of a Black Life Matters Too: Four Neo-Slave Novels from the Year Postracial Definitively Stopped Being a Thing Derek C. Maus -- 3. Whispering Racism in a Postracial World: Slavery and Post-Blackness in Paul Beatty's The Sellout Cameron Leader-Picone -- 4. Getting Graphic with Kindred: The Neo-Slave Narrative of the Black Lives Matter Movement Mollie Godfrey -- 5. "Stay Woke": Post-Black Filmmaking and the Afterlife of Slavery in Jordan Peele's Get Out Kimberly Nichele Brown -- 6. The Song: Living with "Dixie" and the "Coon Space" of Post-Blackness Chenjerai Kumanyika, Jack Hitt, and Chris Neary, with an Introduction by Bertram D. Ashe -- 7. Performing Slavery at the Turn of the Millennium: Stereotypes, Affect, and Theatricality in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Neighbors and Young Jean Lee's The Shipment Ilka Saal -- 8. Thylias Moss's Slave Moth: Liberatory Verse Narrative and Performance Art Malin Pereira -- 9. Plantation Memories: Cheryl Dunye's Representation of a Representation of American Slavery in The Watermelon Woman Bertram D. Ashe -- 10. "An Audience Is a Mob on Its Butt": An Interview with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Bertram D. Ashe and Ilka Saal -- List of Contributors -- Index.

"This book investigates transnational processes through the analytic lens of cultural performance. Structured around key concepts of Performance Studies--commons, skills, and traces, this edited collection addresses the political, normative, and historical implications of cultural performances beyond the limits of the (U.S.) nation-state. These three central aspects of performance function as entryways to inquiries into transnational processes and allow the authors to shift the discussion away from text-centered approaches to intercultural encounters and to bring into focus the dynamic field that opens up between producer, art work, context, setting, and audience in the moment of performance as well as in its afterlife. The essays provide fresh, performance-based approaches to notions of transcultural mobility and circulation, transnational cultural experience and knowledge formation, transnational public spheres, and identities' rootedness in both specific local places or diasporic worlds beyond the written word. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of American Studies, Performance Studies, and Transnational Studies"--