Tavia Nyong'o

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Tavia Nyong'o is Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, and Theater Performance Studies at Yale University. He is the author of The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (2009).

Includes the name: Tavia Amolo Ochieng' Nyongó

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Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life (2018) 27 copies, 1 review

The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (2009) 17 copies

World Stage : Africa, Lagos - Dakar (2008) 17 copies

Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World (2025) 7 copies

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness (Oxford Handbooks) (2018) 3 copies

Being with : a special issue on the work of José Esteban Muñoz (Social text ; 121, winter 2014) 1 copy

Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life (Sexual Cultures Book 14) (English Edition) 1 copy

Being With: A Special Issue on the Work of José Esteban Muñoz (Social Text 121) 1 copy

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Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (2009) — Foreword, some editions — 397 copies, 3 reviews

Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (2017) — Contributor — 118 copies

Best Music Writing 2010 (2010) — Contributor — 38 copies

Social Text 84-85: What's Queer about Queer Studies Now? (2005) — Contributor — 27 copies

Zombie Theory: A Reader (2017) — Contributor — 23 copies, 1 review

Blacktino Queer Performance (2016) — Contributor — 17 copies

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Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life (Sexual Cultures, 14) by Tavia Nyong'o

Tavia Nyong'o writes:

"Where I break with a certain Marxist faith in dialectical thinking is in any expectation that the deciphering or decryption of reified life will produce a real or truer picture of the world as it is, or as it could be. I instead take refuge in the more ambiguous realization that the destruction of reified and stereotypical thinking results only in yet more fantasy production."

Nov 27, 2024