Habeas Viscus : Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human /

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In Habeas Viscus, Alexander G. Weheliye seeks to rectify a major shortcoming of the ""bare life and biopolitics discourse, "" exemplified by the works of Agamben and Foucault, its failure to appreciate the centrality of race to accounts of the human. Working from the vantage poin...

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Main Author: Weheliye, Alexander G., 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Wynter, Sylvia.
Spillers, Hortense J.
Feminist theory.
Black people > Study and teaching.
African Americans > Study and teaching.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Theorie feministe.
Noirs americains > Étude et enseignement.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:In Habeas Viscus, Alexander G. Weheliye seeks to rectify a major shortcoming of the ""bare life and biopolitics discourse, "" exemplified by the works of Agamben and Foucault, its failure to appreciate the centrality of race to accounts of the human. Working from the vantage point of black studies and drawing especially on the thought of the black feminist theorists Hortense Spillers and Sylvia Wynter, Weheliye suggests alternate ways of conceptualizing the place of race within the dominion of modern politics.
Physical Description:1 online resource (219 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780822376491

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