Jean-Paul Rocchi

The Desiring Modes of Being Black

Literature and Critical Theory

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how contemporary black literature challenges theoretical approaches of race, gender and sexualities.

Produktdetails

• Global Critical Caribbean Thought
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9781783483990
• ISBN-10: 1783483997
• Artikelnr.: 43756950

Autorenporträt

Jean-Paul Rocchi is Professor of American Literature and Culture at University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France.

Inhaltsangabe

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