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Afrosurrealism: The Politics and Aesthetics of Terence Nance’s Random Acts of Flyness
Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), School of Arts and Communication (K3).
2022 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 20 credits / 30 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

This thesis investigates the 2018 late-night TV series Random Acts of Flyness created by Terence Nance as an afrosurreal manifestation. The thesis begins with a chapter that outlines both the politics and central aesthetic features of afrosurrealism. Following this are three chapters that deal with one of three central afrosurreal features of the TV series: the merging of the disparate juxtapositions of reality and fiction, the use of nonlinear narrative structure, and a formal and thematic interest in dreams. The first chapter explores the series’ merging of reality and fiction to illustrate how reality, like fiction, is socially constructed and how these social constructions have real material consequences for their characters. The second chapter considers the series’ use of nonlinearity as a way of displacing the dominance of Western temporality in favour of offering an alternative conception of time. The final chapter discusses Random Acts of Flyness’ formal and thematic interest in dreams, illuminating how the series finds freedom in the hesitation between the two opposing worlds of dream and waking life. When viewed as a whole, these three aspects of the series illustrate Random Acts of Flyness’ use of afrosurrealism to illuminate the black experience in the US context. The employment of these afrosurrealist features exposes the absurdity of black life within the afterlife of slavery and opens up the possibility of a black superior reality, an afrosurreality. 

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2022. , p. 57
Keywords [en]
Afrosurrealism, Surrealism, Random Acts of Flyness, Terence Nance
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Cultural Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-52584OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-52584DiVA, id: diva2:1667910
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KS K3 Culture and Change
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Available from: 2022-06-20 Created: 2022-06-11 Last updated: 2022-06-20Bibliographically approved

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