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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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
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
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