Amber Jamilla Musser

Between Shadows and Noise

Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined

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Produktbeschreibung

Amber Jamilla Musser theorizes sensation as a Black feminist method for aesthetic interpretation and criticism that uses the knowledges held by the body to access the unrepresentable.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781478025832
• ISBN-10: 1478025832
• Artikelnr.: 68105663

Autorenporträt

Amber Jamilla Musser is Professor of English at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and author of Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance and Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Body Work  1
1. Us, the Uncanny, and the Threat of Black Femininity  21
2. Inside Out: Shango and Spectacles of the Spirit  42
3. Noise and the Body-Place: This ember state and the Critical Encounter 
59
4. On the Brink: Approximation, Difference, and Ongoing Storms  76
5. Tamarind, Metabolism, and Rest: Making Racialized Labor Visible  94
Conclusion. Inflammation: Notes from the Front  112
Notes  131
Bibliography  157
Index  175