Politics and Affect in Black Women's Fiction

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Av Kathy Glass

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Exploring literary possibilities, Politics and Affect reads black women’s text—in particular Frances Harper’s “The Two Offers” (1859), Julia Collins’s The Curse of Caste (1865), Nella Larsen’s Quicksand (1928), and Danzy Senna’s Caucasia (1998)—as richly creative documents saturated with sociopolitical value. Interested in how African American women writers from the nineteenth century to the present have mined the politics of affect and emotion to document love, shame, and suffering in environments shaped by race, Kathy Glass gives sustained attention to the impact of racist affect on the black body, and examines how black women writers deploy emotional states to engender sociopolitical change.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-12-15
Mått159 x 239 x 17 mm
Vikt381 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePhilosophy of Race
Antal sidor134
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498538398

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Politics and Affect intervenes in affect, queer, philosophical, and cultural studies by calling readers to an epistemological project grounded unabashedly in the radicalizing forces of love and the range of emotions— joy, sorrow, excitement, shame, grief, and all the others that render us human. By applying affect and reader response theories to race, black fictions, and embodied blackness, Politics and Affect becomes an astute study surpassing theorizations by some of the most prominent affect, queer, and feminist philosophers. Glass convincingly argues that African American women’s fictions from the antebellum period to the present establish intense emotions including love and empathy as fundamental to the cultivation of antiracist sociopolitical activism.