Abstract
ABSTRACT This article explores the satire in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Friday Black (2018), specifically focusing on the use of speculative devices to question assumptions about racial progress in the twenty-first century United States. Adjei-Brenyah’s humor unsettles the logic of postracial time and demonstrates how contemporary African American satire disrupts race-neutral discourses that reproduce what Maria Bose calls “postracial capitalism.” Drawing on recent scholarship by Bose, Danielle Fuentes Morgan, Lisa Guerrero, and others, I read Adjei-Brenyah’s dark and hilarious short stories as satires that name and challenge the emerging technologies of racist domination that condemn Black bodies to premature death in contemporary America.
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