None like us : Blackness, belonging, aesthetic life /
It passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In this book, the author reappraises what he calls "melancholy historicism"--A kind of crime scene investigation in which the forensic imagination is directe...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2018]
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Series: | Theory Q.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: unfit for history
- 1. My beautiful elimination
- 2. On failing to make the past present
- Interstice: a gossamer writing
- 3. The history of people who did not exist
- 4. Rumor in the archive.