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Author:

Barrett, Lindon, 1961-2008, author.

Title:

Conditions of the present : selected essays / Lindon Barrett ; edited and with an Introduction by Janet Neary ; with contributions by Elizabeth Alexander, Jennifer DeVere Brody, Daphne A. Brooks, Linh U. Hua, Marlon B. Ross, and Robyn Wiegman.

Publisher:

Duke University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xvii, 376 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American literature--Theory, etc.--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
African Americans in literature.

Other Authors:

Neary, Janet, writer of introduction. writer of introduction.
Alexander, Elizabeth, 1962- writer of supplementary textual content.
Brody, Jennifer DeVere, writer of supplementary textual content.
Brooks, Daphne, writer of supplementary textual content.
Hua, Linh U., writer of supplementary textual content.
Ross, Marlon Bryan, 1956- writer of supplementary textual content.
Wiegman, Robyn, writer of supplementary textual content.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

0822370514
9780822370512
0822370328
9780822370321

OCLC:

(OCoLC)987796500

LCCN:

2017036793

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)