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  • 10 - Embodied Black Aliveness

  • from Part II - Black Optics
  • Edited by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Pomona College, California
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to the Black Body in American Literature
    Published online:
    09 May 2024
    Print publication:
    16 May 2024, pp 145-158

  • Summary

    Set in the midst of the quotidian anti-Black terrorism that circumscribed Black life in Jim Crow America, the HBO series Lovecraft Country seamlessly combines Black history and graphic horror to tell a story through a distinctly Black creative and reflective lens. A reading of the journey of Hippolyta Freeman in episode 7, “I Am,” reveals how the means of embodiment, speculative fiction, and elements of Black feminist Afrofuturism are used as a fulcrum to shift the critical weight away from the grim reality of oppression and towards the possibility of escape and liberation. The episode offers a revolutionary representation of the Black body as a conduit for self-discovery, a tool for circumventing anti-Blackness, and ultimately a vehicle for affirming a broader spectrum of Black aliveness that reverberates far beyond the realm of speculative fiction.