Winner 2019 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History given by the American Society for Theatre ResearchArgues for a conception of black cultural life that exceeds postblackness and conditions of loss In AfroFabulations The Queer Drama of Black Life cultural critic and historian Tavia Nyongo surveys the conditions of contemporary black artistic production in the era of postblackness. Moving fluidly between the insurgent art of the 1960s and the intersectional activism of the present day AfroFabulations challenges genealogies of blackness that ignore its creative capacity to exceed conditions of traumatic loss social death and archival erasure.If black survival in an antiblack world often feels like a race against time AfroFabulations looks to the modes of memory and imagination through which a queer and black polytemporality is invented and sustained. Moving past the antirelational debates in queer theory Nyongo posits queerness as sociality drawing upon queer of color critique in order to name the gate and rhythm of black social life as it moves in and out of step with itself.