R. A. Judy

Sentient Flesh

Thinking in Disorder, Poiesis in Black

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining black performance practices that critique Western humanism, R. A. Judy offers an extended meditation on questions of blackness, the human, epistemology, and the historical ways in which the black being is understood.

Produktdetails

• Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 175mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1134g
• ISBN-13: 9781478011026
• ISBN-10: 1478011025
• Artikelnr.: 58771891

Autorenporträt

R. A. Judy is Professor of Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and author of (Dis)forming the American Canon: African-Arabic Slave Narratives and the Vernacular.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations  ix
Notes on Translation and Transliteration  xi
Preface: Preliminary Signposts  xiii
Acknowledgments  xxi
Introduction: Body and Flesh  1
[1st Set]
On Lohengrin's Swan  25
Sentient Flesh  150
[2nd Set]
Sentient Flesh Dancing  215
Poi¿sis in Black  252
Para-Semiosis  319
Coda: Gifting Blues Love-Improper  418
Notes  457
Bibliography  543
Index  573