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Conditions of the Present collects essays by the late Lindon Barrett that theorize race and liberation in the United States, confront critical blind spots within both academic and popular discourse, and speak across institutional divides and the gulf between academia and the street.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barrett, Lindon, 1961-2008 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Neary, Janet (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2018]
Temas:
1900-1999
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
African Americans in literature.
Littérature et société > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
African Americans in literature
African Americans > Intellectual life
Literature and society
United States
Literary criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contrary to appearances / Jennifer DeVere Brody
  • Unruly knowledges / Janet Neary
  • In the classroom, in the academy: situating African American literature, theory, and culture introduction
  • Institutions, classrooms, failures: African American literature and critical theory in the same small spaces
  • The experiences of slave narratives: reading against authenticity
  • Redoubling American studies: John Carlos Rowe and cultural criticism
  • Gestures of inscription: African American slave narratives
  • African-American slave narratives: literacy, the body, authority
  • Hand-writing: legibility and the white body in running a thousand miles for freedom
  • Self-knowledge, law, and African American autobiography: Lucy A. Delaney's from the darkness cometh the light
  • Imagining collectively: identity, individuality, and other social phantasms
  • Identities and identity studies: reading Toni Cade Bambara's "The hammer man"
  • The gaze of Langston Hughes: subjectivity, homoeroticism, and the feminine in the big sea
  • Black men in the mix: badboys, heroes, sequins, and Dennis Rodman
  • Dead men printed: tupac shakur, biggie smalls, and hip-hop eulogy
  • Calculations of race and reason: theorizing the psychic and the social
  • Presence of mind: detection and racialization in "the murders in the rue morgue"
  • Family values/critical values: "the chaos of our strongest feelings" and African American women's writing of the 1890s
  • Mercantilism, u.s. Federalism, and the market within reason: the "people" and the conceptual impossibility of racial blackness
  • Afterword: Remembering Lindon Barrett / Elizabeth Alexander.

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