165400 20260107201858.0 doi 10.12795/REN.2025.i29.6 sideral 147027 ART-2025-147027 eng Calvo Pascual, Mónica Carolina Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-3846-468X Black Utopia and Body Agency in Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts 2025 After situating Rivers Solomon’s debut novel An Unkindness of Ghosts (2017) as a black utopia following Zamalin’s definition of the genre, this essay will explore the text from the intra-acting lenses of black antihumanism, critical posthumanism, and queer kinship. I contend that Solomon’s novel surpasses the notions of Afrofuturism and (white) critical posthumanism alike through its portrayal of the main characters’ gender and sexual non-conformity and the radical kinship bonds they develop among themselves and with the nonhuman in the protagonist’s case. Furthermore, by the characters’ willful control and agency over their own bodies and the future possibilities envisioned in its open ending, Solomon’s ‘autistext’ subverts and explodes the Western, Enlightenment, colonial construction of white (civilized) subjecthood as opposed to the animalization of the black body and the universalist, exceptionalist logic of state-sanctioned brutality inflicted on African Americans since the Antebellum times. Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/H03-23R info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2022-137627NB-I00 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-sa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.es info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 3004 345 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema. Área Filología Inglesa 29 (2025), 7-25 Rev. estud. norteam. Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos 1133-309X 280035 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/165400/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1390656 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/165400/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:165400 articulos driver 2026-01-07-18:53:52 ARTICLE