Introduction or Looking for the Fugitive Life in Social Death

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction or Looking for the Fugitive Life in Social Death 1
4. Part 1. Fugitivity against the Border: Afro-Pessimism, Black Feminist Fugitive Thought, and the Border to Social Death 12
5. Part 2. Practices of Flight: Captivity and Fugitivity in Black American Literature 64
6. Fugitive Conclusions or the Inescapability of Captivity, Flight, and Fugitive Narration 248
7. Works Cited 258
8. Acknowledgements 286
9. Index 288