Another exciting new title from Duke University Press that has recently been indexed by Southwest Humanities, Matthew Omelsky’s Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond, will be published in November 2023. For Omelsky, “’Fugitive time’ names a distinct utopian desire directed at the anticipated moment when the body and mind have been unburdened of the violence that has consumed black life globally for centuries, bringing with it a new form of being.” Through readings of desire and freedom in a selection of twentieth- and twenty-first-century works by black artists from around the world (including Toni Morrison, Aimé Césaire, Issa Samb, Yvonne Vera, Black Audio Film Collective, and Sun Ra, “Omelsky shows how fugitive time evolves and how it remains a dominant form of imagining freedom in global black cultural expression.” This is the thirtieth Duke University Press book that has been indexed by Southwest Humanities. For more information about this book, please see the publisher’s website here.