The Desiring Modes of Being Black
Literature and Critical Theory
Series:
Global Critical Caribbean Thought;
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Date of Publication: 5 February 2020
Number of Volumes: Paperback
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Product details:
ISBN13: | 9781783483990 |
ISBN10: | 1783483997 |
Binding: | Paperback |
No. of pages: | 192 pages |
Size: | 222x153x14 mm |
Weight: | 295 g |
Language: | English |
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Short description:
This book explores how contemporary black literature challenges theoretical approaches of race, gender and sexualities.
Long description:
A critique of theory through literature that celebrates the diversity of black being, The Desiring Modes of Being Black explores how literature unearths theoretical blind spots while reasserting the legitimacy of emotional turbulence in the controlled realm of reason that rationality claims to establish. This approach operates a critical shift by examining psychoanalytical texts from the literary perspective of black desiring subjectivities and experiences. This combination of psychoanalysis and the politics of literary interpretation of black texts helps determine how contemporary African American and black literature and queer texts come to defy and challenge the racial and sexual postulates of psychoanalysis or indeed any theoretical system that intends to define race, gender and sexualities.
The Desiring Modes of Being Black includes essays on James Baldwin, Sigmund Freud, Melvin Dixon, Essex Hemphill, Assotto Saint, and Rozena Maart. The metacritical reading they unfold interweaves African American Culture, Fanonian and Caribbean Thought, South African Black Consciousness, French Theory, Psychoanalysis, and Gender and Queer Studies.
The Desiring Modes of Being Black is an archeology of desire and blackness. Rocchi pronounces a method of un-writing identity in texts only to interrogate its absences. The welcomed transdisciplinary approach exposes a critical, nuanced re-thinking of Baldwin, Dubois, race, sexuality, psychoanalysis, and others to advance a comprehensive frame to engage with performing blackness. Rocchi?s arguments are enhanced by his thoughtful and incisive writing, which makes the text desirable.
The Desiring Modes of Being Black includes essays on James Baldwin, Sigmund Freud, Melvin Dixon, Essex Hemphill, Assotto Saint, and Rozena Maart. The metacritical reading they unfold interweaves African American Culture, Fanonian and Caribbean Thought, South African Black Consciousness, French Theory, Psychoanalysis, and Gender and Queer Studies.
The Desiring Modes of Being Black is an archeology of desire and blackness. Rocchi pronounces a method of un-writing identity in texts only to interrogate its absences. The welcomed transdisciplinary approach exposes a critical, nuanced re-thinking of Baldwin, Dubois, race, sexuality, psychoanalysis, and others to advance a comprehensive frame to engage with performing blackness. Rocchi?s arguments are enhanced by his thoughtful and incisive writing, which makes the text desirable.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements / Foreword, Lewis R. Gordon / Introduction: The Desiring Black Subject as Reading Method / Chapter 1: The Other Bites the Dust?Towards an Epistemology of Identity / And Beyond (Addendum)?The Death of the Same Others & The Discipline of Jouissance / Chapter 2: The Making of a Man?A Modernist Etiology of American Masculinities: Trauma, Testimony, Resistance / Chapter 3: Dying Metaphors and Deadly Fantasies?Freud, Baldwin, and the Meta
-psychoanalysis of Race / Chapter 4: Desire as ?E mag e nation??South African Black Consciousness and Post
-Identity in Rozena Maart?s ?No Rosa, No District Six? / Chapter 5: ?The Substance of Things Hoped For??Melvin Dixon?s Vanishing Rooms; or Racism Intimately / Chapter 6: Writing as I Lay Dying?AIDS Literature and the H(a)unting of Blackness / Chapter 7: The Word?s Image?Self
-Portrait as a Conscious Lie Followed by: Motion, Perception and (Self
-)Transformation?A Postdated Note / Selective Bibliography / Index
-psychoanalysis of Race / Chapter 4: Desire as ?E mag e nation??South African Black Consciousness and Post
-Identity in Rozena Maart?s ?No Rosa, No District Six? / Chapter 5: ?The Substance of Things Hoped For??Melvin Dixon?s Vanishing Rooms; or Racism Intimately / Chapter 6: Writing as I Lay Dying?AIDS Literature and the H(a)unting of Blackness / Chapter 7: The Word?s Image?Self
-Portrait as a Conscious Lie Followed by: Motion, Perception and (Self
-)Transformation?A Postdated Note / Selective Bibliography / Index