Lindon Barrett

Conditions of the Present

Selected Essays

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780822370512
• ISBN-10: 0822370514
• Artikelnr.: 48324345

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Contrary to Appearances / Jennifer DeVere Brody  xi
Acknowledgments  xv
Introduction: Unruly Knowledges / Janet Neary  1
I. In the Classroom, In the Academy: Situating African American Literature,
Theory, and Culture
Introduction / Linh U. Hua  25
1. Institutions, Classrooms, Failures: African American Literature and
Critical Theory in the Same Small Spaces  31
2. The Experiences of Slave Narratives: Reading against Authenticity  48
3. Redoubling American Studies: John Carlos Rowe and Cultural Criticism  61
II. Gestures of Inscription: African American Slave Narratives
Introduction / Daphne A. Brooks  87
4. African-American Slave Narratives: Literacy, the Body, Authority  92
5. Hand-Writing: Legibility and the White Body in Running a Thousand Miles
for Freedom  119
6. Self-Knowledge, Law, and African American Autobiography: Lucy A.
Delaney's From the Darkness Cometh the Light  139
III. Imagining Collectively: Identity, Individuality, and Other Social
Phantasms
Introduction / Marlon B. Ross  165
7. Identities and Identity Studies: Reading Toni Cade Bambra's "The Hammer
Man"  171
8. The Gaze of Langston Hughes: Subjectivity, Homoeroticism, and the
Feminine in The Big Sea  193
9. Black Men in the Mix: Badboys, Heroes, Sequins, and Dennis Rodman  212
10. Dead Men Printed: Tupac Shakur, Biggie Smalls, and Hip-Hop Eulogy  237
IV. Calculations of Race and Reason: Theorizing the Psychic and the Social
Introduction / Robyn Wiegman  273
11. Presence of Mind: Detection and Racialization in "The Murders in the
Rue Morgue"  278
12. Family Values/Critical Values: "The Chaos of Our Strongest Feelings"
and African American Women's Writings of the 1890s  299
13. Mercantilism, U.S. Federalism, and the Market within Reason: The
"People" and the Conceptual Impossibility of Racial Blackness  320
Afterword: Remembering Lindon Barrett / Elizabeth Alexander  353
Contributors  357
Index  361
Credits  375