Stephen Best

None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life

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Produktbeschreibung

Stephen Best offers a bold reappraisal of the critical assumptions that undergird black studiesâ use of the slave past as an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present, thereby opening the circuits between past and present and charting a queer future for black study.

Produktdetails

• Theory Q
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Altersempfehlung: 19 bis 22 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9781478001508
• ISBN-10: 147800150X
• Artikelnr.: 50989556

Autorenporträt

Stephen Best is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Unfit for History  1
Part I. On Thinking Like a Work of Art
1. My Beautiful Elimination  29
2. On Failing to Make the Past Present  63
Part II. A History of Discontinuity
Interstice. A Gossamer Writing  83
3. The History of People Who Did Not Exist  91
4. Rumor in the Archive  107
Acknowledgments  133
Notes  135
Bibliography  173
Index  193