Feb 27, 2024
In this episode FQT Associate Director Che Gossett speaks with
William Lampson Professor of Theater and Performance Studies,
Professor of American Studies and African American Studies at Yale
University: Tavia Nyong'o. Nyong'o is the author of The
Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of
Memory (University of Minnesota Press, 2009), and most
recently, Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black
Life (NYU Press, 2018). Gossett speaks with Nyong'o
about blackness, queerness, the Zora Neale Hurston inspired concept
of "angular sociality," and the role of what Nyong'o terms --
extending psychoanalytic interventions -- "critical
ambivalence."
Writers and/or works referenced:
Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism (Duke
University Press, 2011), On the Inconvenience of Other
People (Duke University Press, 2022)
Samuel Delany, The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and
Science Fiction Writing in the East Village (University of
Minnesota Press, 1988)
Erica R. Edwards Charisma and the Fictions of Black
Leadership (University of Minnesota Press, 2012)
Zora Neale Hurston, Mules and men (New York:
Perennial Library, 1935), Their Eyes Were Watching God (Amistad,
Harper Perennial, 1937), Baracoon: The Story of the Last "Black
Cargo" (Amistad, Harper Perennial Reprint, 2018)
Cindy Patton, Inventing AIDS (Routledge Press, 1990),
Globalizing AIDS (University of Minnesota, 2002)
Rustin (film, 2023)
Eve Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet (UC Berkeley
Press, 1990), Touching Feeling (Duke University
Press, 2003)
Jackie Stacey, "Wishing Away Ambivalence," Feminist Theory,
2014, Vol. 15(I) 39-49
Antonio Viego, Dead Subjects: Towards a Politics of
Loss in Latino Studies (Duke University Press,
2007)