Future Texts

Subversive Performance and Feminist Bodies

Vicki Callahan, Virginia Kuhn

• Publisher: Parlor Press, LLC
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781602357679
• eBook ISBN: 9781602357693
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Digital Media
• Index: Computer Science

Future Texts: Subversive Performance and Feminist Bodies sketches several possibilities for future texts, those that imagine new pathways through the forms used to express contemporary questions of race, gender, and identity. Future Texts: Subversive Performance and Feminist Bodies' area of investigation is situated within popular culture, not as a place of critique or celebration, but rather as a contested site that crosses an array of media forms, from music video, to games, to global journalism. While there is an established tradition in feminist writing founded on experimental expression that disrupts patriarchal culture, it has too often failed to consider issues of race and class. This is evident in the dilemma faced by black feminists who, alienated from dominant feminism's failure to consider their experience, have been forced to choose whether they were black or women first. To push back against such identity splintering, Future Texts: Subversive Performance and Feminist Bodies begins with the politics and aesthetics of Afrofuturism, which sets the stage for the dialogue around contemporary feminism that runs through the collection. With a paradigm of remix as linguistic play and reconfiguration, the chapters confront the question of narrative codes and conventions. These new formats are crucial to rewriting the relationship between hegemonic and resistant texts.

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction
• Part 1: Afrofuturism in Popular Culture
• 2 The New “Material Girls”: Madonna, “Millenial” Pop Divas, and the Politics of Race and Gender
• 3 A Window Seat to History: Erykah Badu’s Dealey Plaza Remix
• 4 The Possibilities of Liminality: Black Women’s Future Texts as Productive Chaos
• 5 Re-Creating Niobe: The Construction and Re-Construction of Black Femininity through Games and the Social Psychology of the Avatar.
• 6 “Ghana Meets the World”: Remixing Popular Culture on OMG! Ghana
• Part 2: Feminist Disruptions of Gender and Narrative Codes
• 7 Adapting Lisbeth for Hollywood: The Politics and Franchising Practices behind Sony’s GWTDT Reboot
• 8 Recasting The Best Years of Our Lives: Gender, Revision, and Military Women in the Veteran’s Homecoming Film
• 9 Television’s Queer Future? The Possibilities and Limitations of Web Series, Digital Distribution, and LGBT Representation in Husbands
• 10 Sucker Punch and the Aesthetics of Denial: Future Perfect Tense
• Contributors
• About the Editors
• Index
• Back cover