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

Published Durham : Duke University Press, [2018] ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (376 pages) 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 Summary Conditions of the Present collects essays by the late Lindon Barrett that theorize race and liberation in the United States, confront critical blind spots within both academic and popular discourse, and speak across institutional divides and the gulf between academia and the street Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century African Americans in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory African Americans in literature African Americans -- Intellectual life Literature and society United States Genre/Form Literary criticism Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book Author Neary, Janet, editor, 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. LC no. 2017056119 ISBN 9780822372066 0822372061

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