Title Archives of flesh : African America, Spain, and post-humanist critique / Robert F. Reid-Pharr

Published New York : New York University Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (202 pages) Series Sexual cultures Sexual cultures. Contents War archive -- Lorca's deathly poetics -- Langston's adventures in the dark -- Primitive at the plantation's edge -- Richard Wright in the house of girls Summary Robert Reid-Pharr reveals the deep history of intellectual engagement between African America and Spain. Opening a fascinating window onto black and anti-Fascist intellectual life from 1898 through the mid-1950s, Reid-Pharr argues that key institutions of Western Humanism, including American colleges and universities, developed in intimate relation to slavery, colonization, and white supremacy. This retreat to rigidly established philosophical and critical traditions can never fully address-or even fully recognize-the deep-seated hostility to black subjectivity underlying the humanist ideal of a transcendent Manhood. Calling for a specifically anti-white supremacist reexamination of the archives of black subjectivity and resistance, Reid-Pharr enlists the principles of post-humanist critique in order to investigate decades of intimate dialogues between African American and Spanish intellectuals, including Salaria Kea, Federico Garcia Lorca, Nella Larsen, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Chester Himes, Lynn Nottage, and Pablo Picasso. In the process Reid-Pharr takes up the "African American Spanish Archive" in order to resist the anti-corporeal, anti-black, anti-human biases that stand at the heart of Western Humanism Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century Intellectuals -- Spain -- History -- 20th century African Americans in literature. Humanism in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. African Americans in literature African Americans -- Intellectual life American literature -- African American authors Humanism in literature Intellectuals Spain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2016023897 ISBN 9781479824267 1479824267

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