Counterimagination

This preoccupation, it appears, was to challenge official constructions of blackness and to create oppositional or counterimaginations of black identity.

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In order to forge networks with these strong women, and potentially make globalized links with them, at both a material and imagined level, first they must be taken out of the limited categories Western imagination (and Western academic disciplines) have cast them into, by a process of counterimagination.

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In the midst of their flirtation, the reader senses counterimaginations at work: the young men sing their evangelical hymns, “I've Got a Friend in Jesus” and “The Old Rugged Cross,” in response to which the young women literally chant the medieval Latin hymn “Tantum Ergo,” written by Aquinas.

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