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: James Baldwin and Audre Lorde "Revolutionary Hope: A Conversation between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde" (1984) http://theculture.forharriet.com/2014/03/revolutionary-hope-conversation-between.html 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)
