Conditions of the Present

Selected Essays

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

AvLindon Barrett,Janet Neary

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Conditions of the Present collects essays by the late Lindon Barrett, whose scholarship centers African American literature as a site from which to theorize race and liberation in the United States. Barrett confronts critical blind spots within both academic and popular discourse, offering readings of cultural and literary texts that transcend institutional divides and the gulf between academia and the street. Whether analyzing autobiographies by Lucy Delaney or Langston Hughes, hip-hop eulogies, or the formation of U.S. nationalist discourse, Barrett interrogates the mechanisms that shape social and subjective structures and that grant certain people power while withholding it from others. Deploying Marxist, psychoanalytic, feminist, and queer theories, Barrett explicates the interrelationship of desire and subjection to expose the violence and coercion embedded in narratives of "progress." Ultimately, this collection emphasizes Lindon Barrett's vital and enduring contribution to African American studies.Contributors. Elizabeth Alexander, Jennifer DeVere Brody, Daphne A. Brooks, Linh U. Hua, Janet Neary, Marlon B. Ross, Robyn Wiegman

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Utgivningsdatum2018-03-09
Mått152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt544 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor400
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9780822370512

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Lindon Barrett (1961–2008) was Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of California, Riverside, and the author of Blackness and Value: Seeing Double and Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity.Janet Neary is Associate Professor of English at Hunter College, City University of New York, and the author of Fugitive Testimony: On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives.

Preface: Contrary to Appearances / Jennifer DeVere Brody xiAcknowledgments xvIntroduction: Unruly Knowledges / Janet Neary 1I. In the Classroom, In the Academy: Situating African American Literature, Theory, and CultureIntroduction / Linh U. Hua 251. Institutions, Classrooms, Failures: African American Literature and Critical Theory in the Same Small Spaces 312. The Experiences of Slave Narratives: Reading against Authenticity 483. Redoubling American Studies: John Carlos Rowe and Cultural Criticism 61II. Gestures of Inscription: African American Slave NarrativesIntroduction / Daphne A. Brooks 874. African-American Slave Narratives: Literacy, the Body, Authority 925. Hand-Writing: Legibility and the White Body in Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom 1196. Self-Knowledge, Law, and African American Autobiography: Lucy A. Delaney's From the Darkness Cometh the Light 139III. Imagining Collectively: Identity, Individuality, and Other Social PhantasmsIntroduction / Marlon B. Ross 1657. Identities and Identity Studies: Reading Toni Cade Bambra's "The Hammer Man" 1718. The Gaze of Langston Hughes: Subjectivity, Homoeroticism, and the Feminine in The Big Sea 1939. Black Men in the Mix: Badboys, Heroes, Sequins, and Dennis Rodman 21210. Dead Men Printed: Tupac Shakur, Biggie Smalls, and Hip-Hop Eulogy 237IV. Calculations of Race and Reason: Theorizing the Psychic and the SocialIntroduction / Robyn Wiegman 27311. Presence of Mind: Detection and Racialization in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" 27812. Family Values/Critical Values: "The Chaos of Our Strongest Feelings" and African American Women's Writings of the 1890s 29913. Mercantilism, U.S. Federalism, and the Market within Reason: The "People" and the Conceptual Impossibility of Racial Blackness 320Afterword: Remembering Lindon Barrett / Elizabeth Alexander 353Contributors 357Index 361Credits 375