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Time and Refusal in Contemporary Black Radical Thought: An Introduction

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Abstract

This introduction offers an overview of some central strands through which contemporary Black radical thought has conceived the temporal dimension of practices of refusal. Tracing the connection between time and refusal that emerges across the works of Frederick Douglass, Frantz Fanon, Saidiya Hartman and other contemporary Black thinkers, we position refusal as a radical temporal practice that can unsettle the racialized grammars of time inaugurated by the histories of transatlantic slavery and Western colonization.

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Author(s): Ventura D, Primera G

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Paragraph

Year: 2026

Volume: 49

Issue: 1

Pages: 1-13

Print publication date: 16/03/2026

Online publication date: 16/03/2026

Acceptance date: 17/07/2025

Date deposited: 30/03/2026

ISSN (print): 0264-8334

ISSN (electronic): 1750-0176

Publisher: Edinbugh University Press

URL: https://doi.org/10.3366/para.2026.0511

DOI: 10.3366/para.2026.0511

ePrints DOI: 10.57711/s4et-6x34

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