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anarchy
architecture of enclosure
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brainwashing
captivity
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coalition
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escape
escapism
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Glenn Ligon
Henry "Box" Brown
Junot Diaz
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Octavia E. Butler
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Parable of the Sower
Patty Hearst
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Saidiya Hartman
Sharon Hayes
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Symbionese Liberation Army
Tony Kushner
Toshi Reagon
Tourmaline
white desire
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Wilmer Wilson IV
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- ISBN 9781478030270
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 Apr 2024
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In The Only Way Out, Katherine Brewer Ball explores the American fascination with the escape story. Brewer Ball argues that escape is a key site for exploring American conceptions of freedom and constraint. Stories of escape are never told just once but become mythic in their episodic iterations, revealing the fantasies and desires of society, the storyteller, and the listener. While white escape narratives have typically been laden with Enlightenment fantasies of redemption where freedom is available to any individual willing to seize it, Brewer Ball explores how Black and queer escape offer forms of radical possibility. Drawing on Black studies, queer theory, and performance studies, she examines a range of works, from nineteenth-century American literature to contemporary queer of color art and writing by contemporary American artists including Wilmer Wilson IV, Tourmaline, Tony Kushner, Junot DÍaz, Glenn Ligon, Toshi Reagon, and Sharon Hayes. Throughout, escape emerges as a story not of individuality but of collectivity and entanglement.
Katherine Brewer Ball is Assistant Professor of Theater at Wesleyan University.
