Sarah Jane Cervenak

Wandering

Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom

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Produktbeschreibung

Ruminating on the significance of physical and mental roaming in relation to black freedom, Sarah Jane Cervenak emphasizes the power of wandering and daydreaming for those whose mobility is severely constrained. From Sojourner Truth's spiritual and physical journeys to the rambling protagonist of Gayl Jones's novel Mosquito, Cervenak highlights modes of wandering that subvert Enlightenment-based protocols of rationality, composure, and upstanding comportment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780822357155
• ISBN-10: 0822357151
• Artikelnr.: 40697658

Autorenporträt

Sarah Jane Cervenak is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and African American Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Losing Their Heads: Race, Sexuality, and the Perverse Moves of the
European Enlightenment 24
2. Crooked Ways and Weak Pens: The Enactment of Enlightenment against
Slavery 59
3. Writing under a Spell: Adrienne Kennedy's Theater 95
4. "I Am an African American Novel": Wandering as Noncompliance in Gayl
Jones's Mosquito 122
Conclusion. "Before I Was Straightened Out" 145
Notes 173
Bibliography 197
Index 209