Black Feelings aren’t “Too Much,” They’re Even More

This world, dominated by concepts of Western minimalism which seek to contain and restrict voice and expression, designates the Black Maximalist as living disruption of erasure and confinement. Within Afrosurrealist literature, excess functions as a resistance to invisibilization. More specifically, sensory maximalism, in its amplification of Black interiorities and Black emotion, subverts the constraints which tell Black people we must be quiet, emotionless, and always able to endure.