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Format: Häftad (Trade paperback)
Språk: Engelska
Serie: Theory Q
Antal sidor: 277
Utgivningsdatum: 2018-11-26
Förlag: Duke University Press
Dimensioner: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
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ISBN: 9781478001508

None Like Us

Name: None Like Us
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Author: Stephen Best
ISBN: 9781478001508

Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life

av Stephen Best

Häftad, Engelska, 2018-11-26

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It passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In None Like Us Stephen Best reappraises what he calls "melancholy historicism"-a kind of crime scene investigation in which the forensic imagination is directed toward the recovery of a "we" at the point of "our" violent origin. Best argues that there is and can be no "we" following from such a time and place, that black identity is constituted in and through negation, taking inspiration from David Walker's prayer that "none like us may ever live again until time shall be no more." Best draws out the connections between a sense of impossible black sociality and strains of negativity that have operated under the sign of queer. In None Like Us the art of El Anatsui and Mark Bradford, the literature of Toni Morrison and Gwendolyn Brooks, even rumors in the archive, evidence an apocalyptic aesthetics, or self-eclipse, which opens the circuits between past and present and thus charts a queer future for black study.

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I sin introduktion till¿ Inga som vi ¿[ None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life , 2018] kritiserar Stephen Best den typ av svart samtida skrivande som grundar sig i vad han kallar »melankolisk historicism«: föreställningen att det går a...

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Stephen Best is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession.