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1 online resource (197 pages) |
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Theory Q
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Theory Q.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: unfit for history -- 1. My beautiful elimination -- 2. On failing to make the past present -- Interstice: a gossamer writing -- 3. The history of people who did not exist -- 4. Rumor in the archive. |
| Summary |
It passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In this book, the author 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. The author 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." The author draws out the connections between a sense of impossible black sociality and strains of negativity that have operated under the sign of queer. In this book, 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 |
| Local Note |
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Black people -- Study and teaching.
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Aesthetics, Black.
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Black people -- Race identity.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. |
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Aesthetics, Black. |
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Black people -- Race identity. |
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Black people -- Study and teaching. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Best, Stephen Michael. None like us. Durham : Duke University Press, 2018 9781478001157 (DLC) 2018008212 (OCoLC)1022781051 |
| ISBN |
9781478002581 (electronic book) |
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1478002581 (electronic book) |
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9781478001157 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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1478001151 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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9781478001508 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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147800150X (paperback alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9781478002581 |
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