The Garden Realm of Pale Ratiocinations: Toward the Abolition of a Dark Fantastic Theological Imaginary of Human Being

Anti-Blackness adumbrates rationality and reaches into phobic realms, what Frantz Fanon called the “paralogical.” Ebony Elizabeth Thomas’s The Dark Fantastic links the dark fantastic imagination and the Dark Other of speculative fiction to their cultural iterations and augments the paralogicality of...

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Main Author: Wood-House, Nathan D. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group 2024
In: Political theology
Year: 2024, Volume: 25, Issue: 4, Pages: 278–295
Further subjects:B police abolition
B Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
B anti-blackness
B dark fantastic imagination
B Theological Anthropology
B Dark Other
B Lovecraft Country
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