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Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life

Tavia Nyong'o

Print publication date: 2018

Print ISBN-13: 9781479856275

Published to NYU Press Scholarship Online: May 2019

DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479856275.001.0001

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Crushed Black

Crushed Black

On Archival Opacity

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(p.46) 2 Crushed Black
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Afro-Fabulations
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Tavia Nyong'o

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NYU Press
DOI:10.18574/nyu/9781479856275.003.0003

This chapter engages queer and black feminist debates over recovery, reparation, and the archive to offer a new account of the controversial film Portrait of Jason and its afterlives. Taking the metaphor of “crushed blacks” to consider the value of obscurity, blur, and opacity in the archive, the chapter critiques positivist demands for historical legibility and veracity as hostile to the world-making survival stratagems of afro-fabulation.

Keywords:   Portrait of Jason (film), Clarke, Shirley, Holliday, Jason, Jason and Shirley (film), fabulation, archives, queer temporality

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