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The Resource Conditions of the present : selected essays, Lindon Barrett ; edited and with an introduction by Janet Neary ; with contributions by Elizabeth Alexander, Jennifer DeVere Brody, Daphne A. Brooks, Linh U. Hua, Marlon B. Ross, and Robyn Wiegman

Conditions of the present : selected essays, Lindon Barrett ; edited and with an introduction by Janet Neary ; with contributions by Elizabeth Alexander, Jennifer DeVere Brody, Daphne A. Brooks, Linh U. Hua, Marlon B. Ross, and Robyn Wiegman

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xvii, 376 pages
Contents
  • Contrary to appearances / Jennifer DeVere Brody
  • Unruly knowledges / Janet Neary
  • In the classroom, in the academy: situating African American literature, theory, and culture introduction
  • Institutions, classrooms, failures: African American literature and critical theory in the same small spaces
  • The experiences of slave narratives: reading against authenticity
  • Redoubling American studies: John Carlos Rowe and cultural criticism
  • Gestures of inscription: African American slave narratives
  • African-American slave narratives: literacy, the body, authority
  • Hand-writing: legibility and the white body in running a thousand miles for freedom
  • Self-knowledge, law, and African American autobiography: Lucy A. Delaney's from the darkness cometh the light
  • Imagining collectively: identity, individuality, and other social phantasms
  • Identities and identity studies: reading Toni Cade Bambara's "The hammer man"
  • The gaze of Langston Hughes: subjectivity, homoeroticism, and the feminine in the big sea
  • Black men in the mix: badboys, heroes, sequins, and Dennis Rodman
  • Dead men printed: tupac shakur, biggie smalls, and hip-hop eulogy
  • Calculations of race and reason: theorizing the psychic and the social
  • Presence of mind: detection and racialization in "the murders in the rue morgue"
  • Family values/critical values: "the chaos of our strongest feelings" and African American women's writing of the 1890s
  • Mercantilism, u.s. Federalism, and the market within reason: the "people" and the conceptual impossibility of racial blackness
  • Afterword: Remembering Lindon Barrett / Elizabeth Alexander
Isbn
9780822370512
Instance
Label
Conditions of the present : selected essays
Title
Conditions of the present
Title remainder
selected essays
Statement of responsibility
Lindon Barrett ; edited and with an introduction by Janet Neary ; with contributions by Elizabeth Alexander, Jennifer DeVere Brody, Daphne A. Brooks, Linh U. Hua, Marlon B. Ross, and Robyn Wiegman
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Contributor
Author
Editor
Writer of introduction
Writer of supplementary textual content
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Language
eng
Cataloging source
NcD/DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1961-2008
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Barrett, Lindon
Dewey number
810
Index
index present
LC call number
PS153.N5
LC item number
B297 2018
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1962-
  • 1956-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Neary, Janet
  • Alexander, Elizabeth
  • Brody, Jennifer DeVere
  • Brooks, Daphne
  • Hua, Linh U.
  • Ross, Marlon Bryan
  • Wiegman, Robyn
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • American literature
  • Literature and society
  • African Americans
  • African Americans in literature
Label
Conditions of the present : selected essays, Lindon Barrett ; edited and with an introduction by Janet Neary ; with contributions by Elizabeth Alexander, Jennifer DeVere Brody, Daphne A. Brooks, Linh U. Hua, Marlon B. Ross, and Robyn Wiegman
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
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rdacontent
Contents
Contrary to appearances / Jennifer DeVere Brody -- Unruly knowledges / Janet Neary -- In the classroom, in the academy: situating African American literature, theory, and culture introduction -- Institutions, classrooms, failures: African American literature and critical theory in the same small spaces -- The experiences of slave narratives: reading against authenticity -- Redoubling American studies: John Carlos Rowe and cultural criticism -- Gestures of inscription: African American slave narratives -- African-American slave narratives: literacy, the body, authority -- Hand-writing: legibility and the white body in running a thousand miles for freedom -- Self-knowledge, law, and African American autobiography: Lucy A. Delaney's from the darkness cometh the light -- Imagining collectively: identity, individuality, and other social phantasms -- Identities and identity studies: reading Toni Cade Bambara's "The hammer man" -- The gaze of Langston Hughes: subjectivity, homoeroticism, and the feminine in the big sea -- Black men in the mix: badboys, heroes, sequins, and Dennis Rodman -- Dead men printed: tupac shakur, biggie smalls, and hip-hop eulogy -- Calculations of race and reason: theorizing the psychic and the social -- Presence of mind: detection and racialization in "the murders in the rue morgue" -- Family values/critical values: "the chaos of our strongest feelings" and African American women's writing of the 1890s -- Mercantilism, u.s. Federalism, and the market within reason: the "people" and the conceptual impossibility of racial blackness -- Afterword: Remembering Lindon Barrett / Elizabeth Alexander
Control code
ocn987796500
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
xvii, 376 pages
Isbn
9780822370512
Isbn Type
(pbk. : alk. paper)
Lccn
2017036793
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Label
Conditions of the present : selected essays, Lindon Barrett ; edited and with an introduction by Janet Neary ; with contributions by Elizabeth Alexander, Jennifer DeVere Brody, Daphne A. Brooks, Linh U. Hua, Marlon B. Ross, and Robyn Wiegman
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Contrary to appearances / Jennifer DeVere Brody -- Unruly knowledges / Janet Neary -- In the classroom, in the academy: situating African American literature, theory, and culture introduction -- Institutions, classrooms, failures: African American literature and critical theory in the same small spaces -- The experiences of slave narratives: reading against authenticity -- Redoubling American studies: John Carlos Rowe and cultural criticism -- Gestures of inscription: African American slave narratives -- African-American slave narratives: literacy, the body, authority -- Hand-writing: legibility and the white body in running a thousand miles for freedom -- Self-knowledge, law, and African American autobiography: Lucy A. Delaney's from the darkness cometh the light -- Imagining collectively: identity, individuality, and other social phantasms -- Identities and identity studies: reading Toni Cade Bambara's "The hammer man" -- The gaze of Langston Hughes: subjectivity, homoeroticism, and the feminine in the big sea -- Black men in the mix: badboys, heroes, sequins, and Dennis Rodman -- Dead men printed: tupac shakur, biggie smalls, and hip-hop eulogy -- Calculations of race and reason: theorizing the psychic and the social -- Presence of mind: detection and racialization in "the murders in the rue morgue" -- Family values/critical values: "the chaos of our strongest feelings" and African American women's writing of the 1890s -- Mercantilism, u.s. Federalism, and the market within reason: the "people" and the conceptual impossibility of racial blackness -- Afterword: Remembering Lindon Barrett / Elizabeth Alexander
Control code
ocn987796500
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
xvii, 376 pages
Isbn
9780822370512
Isbn Type
(pbk. : alk. paper)
Lccn
2017036793
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n

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