The Death Bound Subject
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The Death Bound Subject
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Author : Abdul R. JanMohamed
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2005-04-21
The Death Bound Subject written by Abdul R. JanMohamed and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
During the 1940s, in response to the charge that his writing was filled with violence, Richard Wright replied that the manner came from the matter, that the “relationship of the American Negro to the American scene [was] essentially violent,” and that he could deny neither the violence he had witnessed nor his own existence as a product of racial violence. Abdul R. JanMohamed provides extraordinary insight into Wright’s position in this first study to explain the fundamental ideological and political functions of the threat of lynching in Wright’s work and thought. JanMohamed argues that Wright’s oeuvre is a systematic and thorough investigation of what he calls the death-bound-subject, the subject who is formed from infancy onward by the imminent threat of death. He shows that with each successive work, Wright delved further into the question of how living under a constant menace of physical violence affected his protagonists and how they might “free” themselves by overcoming their fear of death and redeploying death as the ground for their struggle. Drawing on psychoanalytic, Marxist, and phenomenological analyses, and on Orlando Patterson’s notion of social death, JanMohamed develops comprehensive, insightful, and original close readings of Wright’s major publications: his short-story collection Uncle Tom’s Children; his novels Native Son, The Outsider, Savage Holiday, and The Long Dream; and his autobiography Black Boy/American Hunger. The Death-Bound-Subject is a stunning reevaluation of the work of a major twentieth-century American writer, but it is also much more. In demonstrating how deeply the threat of death is involved in the formation of black subjectivity, JanMohamed develops a methodology for understanding the presence of the death-bound-subject in African American literature and culture from the earliest slave narratives forward.
The Psychic Hold Of Slavery
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Author : Soyica Diggs Colbert
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2016-07-20
The Psychic Hold Of Slavery written by Soyica Diggs Colbert and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-20 with Social Science categories.
What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America? Or could the psychic hold of slavery be understood as a tool, helping us get a grip on the systemic racial inequalities and restricted liberties that persist in the present day? Featuring original essays from an array of established and emerging scholars in the interdisciplinary field of African American studies, The Psychic Hold of Slavery offers a nuanced dialogue upon these questions. With a painful awareness that our understanding of the past informs our understanding of the present—and vice versa—the contributors place slavery’s historical legacies in conversation with twenty-first-century manifestations of antiblack violence, dehumanization, and social death. Through an exploration of film, drama, fiction, performance art, graphic novels, and philosophical discourse, this volume considers how artists grapple with questions of representation, as they ask whether slavery can ever be accurately depicted, trace the scars that slavery has left on a traumatized body politic, or debate how to best convey that black lives matter. The Psychic Hold of Slavery thus raises provocative questions about how we behold the historically distinct event of African diasporic enslavement and how we might hold off the transhistorical force of antiblack domination.
Bound To Appear
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Author : Huey Copeland
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013-10-28
Bound To Appear written by Huey Copeland and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-28 with Art categories.
A smart account of a defining moment in African American contemporary art. The early 1990s were a game changer for black artists. Many rose prominently to lead the field of advanced art more generally--artists like Glenn Ligon, Renee Green, Fred Wilson, Lorna Simpson and others. It was in the early 1990s when African American artists began to produce installation and conceptual work, where previously, as an identity group, they had focused on figurative painting and craft work. Now, suddently, artists were producing site specific installations, sound art, performance, and readymades that sought to immerse the viewer in environments that provoked the experience of slavery and raised awareness of the constructedness of "blackness" in this country.
Biopolitical Governance
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Author : Hannah Richter
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2018-05-17
Biopolitical Governance written by Hannah Richter and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-17 with Social Science categories.
This collection brings together contributions from both established scholars and researchers working at the forefront of biopolitical theory, gendered and sexualised governance and the politics of race and migration.
Exiles Outcasts Strangers
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Author : Mary Jo Muratore
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2011-08-25
Exiles Outcasts Strangers written by Mary Jo Muratore and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Exiles, Outcasts, Strangers explores how nine different "outsider" authors treat the theme of alienation in one of their major works. All the novels under review were written in a limited time span (1942 to 1987, approximately 50 years), and all are structured around a hero or heroine who remains culturally, ethically or aesthetically distant from his/her narrative counterparts. Works discussed: Albert Camus' L'Etranger; Richard Wright's The Outsider; André Langevin's Poussière sur la ville; Ernesto Sábato's El túnel; V.S. Naipaul's Guerrillas; Elie Wiesel's Le Cinquième fils; Norbert Zongo's Le Parachutage; Gisèle Pineau's L'Exil selon Julia, and Jean Genet's Querelle de Brest.
English Liberties Or The Free Born Subject S Inheritance First Compiled By Henry Care And Now Inlarged With New And Useful Additions By A Wellwisher To His Country Etc
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Author : Henry Care
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1700
English Liberties Or The Free Born Subject S Inheritance First Compiled By Henry Care And Now Inlarged With New And Useful Additions By A Wellwisher To His Country Etc written by Henry Care and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1700 with categories.
Extravagant Abjection
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Author : Darieck Scott
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2010-07-12
Extravagant Abjection written by Darieck Scott and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Summary: Challenging the conception of empowerment associated with the Black Power Movement and its political and intellectual legacies, this title contends that power can be found not only in martial resistance, but, surprisingly, where the black body has been inflicted with harm or humiliation.
Eudora Welty Whiteness And Race
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Author : Harriet Pollack
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2013-01-01
Eudora Welty Whiteness And Race written by Harriet Pollack and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Faced with Eudora Welty's preference for the oblique in literary performances, some have assumed that Welty was not concerned with issues of race, or even that she was perhaps ambivalent toward racism. This collection counters those assumptions as it examines Welty's handling of race, the color line, and Jim Crow segregation and sheds new light on her views about the patterns, insensitivities, blindness, and atrocities of whiteness. Contributors to this volume show that Welty addressed whiteness and race in her earliest stories, her photography, and her first novel, Delta Wedding. In subsequent work, including The Golden Apples, The Optimist's Daughter, and her memoir, One Writer's Beginnings, she made the color line and white privilege visible, revealing the gaping distances between lives lived in shared space but separated by social hierarchy and segregation. Even when black characters hover in the margins of her fiction, they point readers toward complex lives, and the black body is itself full of meaning in her work. Several essays suggest that Welty represented race, like gender and power, as a performance scripted by whiteness. Her black characters in particular recognize whiteface and blackface as performances, especially comical when white characters are unaware of their role play. Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race also makes clear that Welty recognized white material advantage and black economic deprivation as part of a cycle of race and poverty in America and that she connected this history to lives on either side of the color line, to relationships across it, and to an uneasy hierarchy of white classes within the presumed monolith of whiteness. Contributors: Mae Miller Claxton, Susan V. Donaldson, Julia Eichelberger, Sarah Ford, Jean C. Griffith, Rebecca Mark, Suzanne Marrs, Donnie McMahand, David McWhirter, Harriet Pollack, Keri Watson, Patricia Yaeger.
Deathbound Duke S Daughter Volume 1
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Author : Terasu Senoo
language : en
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Release Date : 2020-06-27
Deathbound Duke S Daughter Volume 1 written by Terasu Senoo and has been published by J-Novel Club this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-27 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
One evening in early spring, eight-year-old Erika Aurelia realizes sheâs the detestable little villainess from an otome game called Liber Monstrorum: The Winter Maiden and the Phantasmic Beasts. As if that wasnât bad enough already, Erikaâs role in the game is to pester the main character... and then die in order to kick off a mysterious series of events! These incidents are different in each love interestâs route, and seven routes means seven deaths to avoid. Not one to throw in the towel, Erika knows she must take action to destroy her death flagsâand since her life is on the line, thereâs no time to lose! Her very first death flag is set to rise after she meets two noble children from a prominent magicianâs house. In order to prevent the resulting incidents, the Gold Rush Murders, she arms herself with her brother's expensive(!!!) magical items and heads into the ancient Seafarerâs Ruins. But things donât quite go according to plan...
Women And The Material Culture Of Death
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Author : BethFowkes Tobin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Women And The Material Culture Of Death written by BethFowkes Tobin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with History categories.
Examining the compelling and often poignant connection between women and the material culture of death, this collection focuses on the objects women make, the images they keep, the practices they use or are responsible for, and the places they inhabit and construct through ritual and custom. Women?s material practices, ranging from wearing mourning jewelry to dressing the dead, stitching memorial samplers to constructing skull boxes, collecting funeral programs to collecting and studying diseased hearts, making and collecting taxidermies, and making sculptures honoring the death, are explored in this collection as well as women?s affective responses and sentimental labor that mark their expected and unexpected participation in the social practices surrounding death and the dead. The largely invisible work involved in commemorating and constructing narratives and memorials about the dead-from family members and friends to national figures-calls attention to the role women as memory keepers for families, local communities, and the nation. Women have tended to work collaboratively, making, collecting, and sharing objects that conveyed sentiments about the deceased, whether human or animal, as well as the identity of mourners. Death is about loss, and many of the mourning practices that women have traditionally and are currently engaged in are about dealing with private grief and public loss as well as working to mitigate the more general anxiety that death engenders about the impermanence of life.