Jean-Paul Rocchi

The Desiring Modes of Being Black

Literature and Critical Theory

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Produktbeschreibung

A critique of theory through literature that celebrates the diversity of black being, The Desiring Modes of Being Black explores how literature unearths theoretical blind spots while reasserting the legitimacy of emotional turbulence in the controlled realm of reason that rationality claims to establish. This approach operates a critical shift by examining psychoanalytical texts from the literary perspective of black desiring subjectivities and experiences. This combination of psychoanalysis and the politics of literary interpretation of black texts helps determine how contemporary African American and black literature and queer texts come to defy and challenge the racial and sexual postulates of psychoanalysis or indeed any theoretical system that intends to define race, gender and sexualities. The Desiring Modes of Being Black includes essays on James Baldwin, Sigmund Freud, Melvin Dixon, Essex Hemphill, Assotto Saint, and Rozena Maart. The metacritical reading they unfold interweaves African American culture, Fanonian and Caribbean thought, South African black consciousness, French theory, psychoanalysis, and gender and queer studies.

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Produktdetails

• Global Critical Caribbean Thought
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9781783483990
• ISBN-10: 1783483997
• Artikelnr.: 43756950

Autorenporträt

Jean-Paul Rocchi is Professor of American Literature and Culture at University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements / Foreword, Lewis R. Gordon / Introduction: The Desiring Black Subject as Reading Method / Chapter 1: The Other Bites the Dust
Towards an Epistemology of Identity / And Beyond (Addendum)
The Death of the Same Others & The Discipline of Jouissance / Chapter 2: The Making of a Man
A Modernist Etiology of American Masculinities: Trauma, Testimony, Resistance / Chapter 3: Dying Metaphors and Deadly Fantasies
Freud, Baldwin, and the Meta
psychoanalysis of Race / Chapter 4: Desire as "E mag e nation"
South African Black Consciousness and Post
Identity in Rozena Maart's "No Rosa, No District Six" / Chapter 5: "The Substance of Things Hoped For"
Melvin Dixon's Vanishing Rooms; or Racism Intimately / Chapter 6: Writing as I Lay Dying
AIDS Literature and the H(a)unting of Blackness / Chapter 7: The Word's Image
Self
Portrait as a Conscious Lie Followed by: Motion, Perception and (Self
)Transformation
A Postdated Note / Selective Bibliography / Index