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Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, 'The Inside-Outside of Civil Society' : An Interview with Frank B. Wilderson, III.(2016); 1696 934 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, A Dialogue : On European Borders, Black Movement, and the History of Social Death.(2016); This article presents a dialogue between Sabine Broeck and P. Khalil Saucier about Black social death and white empathy in contemporary Europe. It is written as a starting point to speak about black movement, European borders, and social death in the midst of almost weekly ship-wrecks in the Mediterrenean Sea; events that Broeck and Saucier read as the constitutive element of the longe duree of black genocide in Europe; the consolidation of late European modernity.Wissenschaftlicher ArtikelBand:2Heft:1582 388 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Afrofuturism in Contemporary African American Literature : Reading Colson Whitehead.(2016)In this post-civil rights era, racial relations are highly complex: racism has not disappeared, but a discourse on postracialism has emerged. Colson Whitehead's fiction explores the vertiginous vortex that represents the complexity of the contemporary problematic relationship between blackness, the future, and technology. This paper shows how race is represented in an 'Afrofuturistic' America by highlighting Afrofuturist aspects in Whitehead's The Intuitionist and Zone One, where the representation of race feeds on the postracial discourse. What may be the implications of representing a post-apocalyptic world? Are racial distinctions still relevant in the context of 'critical posthumanism'? Is the future postracial?Wissenschaftlicher ArtikelBand:2Heft:1424 277 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Searching for Sisterhood : Friendship and Sorority Culture in Tajuana Butlerâ s Sorority Sisters.(2016)This essay examines Tajuana Butler's Sorority Sisters (1998) regarding its portrayal of friendship, sisterhood, and sorority culture. The novel conceptualizes 'sisterhood' as a fictive kinship structure and emphasizes the empowering potential of friendship among women. It fully embraces sorority culture and presents pledging as a 'social drama' in all its facets. Overall, Sorority Sisters provides an intervention into dominant representations of sorority life and black femininity. Yet, this intervention hinges on a discursive system of control shaped by conventional femininity and an uncritical affirmation of the ideology, practices, and significance of sororities.Wissenschaftlicher ArtikelBand:2Heft:1418 173 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Rereading William Melvin Kelley : Black Identity Construction in the Light of an Africana Existentialist and Phenomenological Approach.(2016)As an African American writer who was part of the Black Arts Movement, William Melvin Kelley became an ardent defender of Black identity/-ies and the Black Aesthetics. This article aims to revisit his narratives through the scopes of African Existential Philosophy and a phenomenological approach in order to understand how he perceived and constructed Black identities in the context of segregation. At the cross-road between imagination and lived experience, his stories interrogate what constitutes the self as an existing Black body filled with individual and community essence.Wissenschaftlicher ArtikelBand:2Heft:1353 257 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Disrupting Enslavist Suture : Black Film as a Cinema of Displeasure.(2016)Drawing from Afro-pessimist and feminist film theory, the article proposes a rethinking of theories of racialization and Blackness in and through film. Through a critique of film theories related to the concept of suture and its models of pleasure, identification and subjectivation, the article shows why Blackness in film must not simply be considered through authentic representation or progressive production, but in terms of a disruption of black symbolic death. This disruption is theorized as a cinema of displeasure and irritation, aspects of which will be exemplified with a short consideration of the movie Suture.Wissenschaftlicher ArtikelBand:2Heft:1312 153 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Editors' NoteThis editors' note introduces the second issue of Black Studies Papers, entitled Current Perspectives in Transnational Black Studies.Wissenschaftlicher ArtikelBand:2Heft:1291 120 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, The Parody of Postblackness in I Am Not Sidney Poitier and the End(s) of African American Literature.(2016)Analyzing Percival Everett's I Am Not Sidney Poitier as a multi-level parody, this essay argues that the novel not only parodies its protagonist's almost namesake's filmic oeuvre but also comically engages with Everett's own writing in general, and his novel Erasure in particular. Through detailed discussion of these various levels of parody, the essay teases out the ways in which postblack fiction offers a different, and decidedly non-mimetic, take on issues of race and racism than its predecessors in the African American literary tradition by complicating the relationship between fiction, fictional reality, and extra-textual reality.Wissenschaftlicher ArtikelBand:2Heft:1691 221 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Plantation Spaces and the Black Body: Quentin Tarantino s Django Unchained as Maroon Narrative(2014)This article reads Django Unchained as a maroon narrative. It argues that the film s spatial poetics critique the American symbolic landscapes of the West and the South as well as their cinematic representation. The analysis examines the depiction of the black body and the blending of Western and Southern spaces in an American business master narrative. In this setup, Tarantino s self-made black cowboy figure is not heroic but remains a cipher in both epistemologies. Django acts as a ghost who haunts the plantation and the frontier in a series of masquerades, thus pointing to the pitfalls of cinema history and national myth-making.Wissenschaftlicher ArtikelBand:1Heft:1711 343 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Post-Beloved Writing: Review, Revitalize, Recalculate(2014)Twenty-five years have elapsed since the publication of Beloved. In all its complexity, Toni Morrison s novel forms a peak, both concluding the previous decades of neo-slave narratives and introducing the following ones. As the following article argues, reviewing the many ways the novel has closed a period and opened a new one will help us gain a new perspective and understand new articulations and developments in slav-ery literature. Misrahi-Barak contends that the genre of the neo-slave nar-rative has ceased to be African-American only, but has become trans-national and global, dialogic, polyphonic and trans-generic. It has also been instrumental in implementing a rapprochement between disciplines that used to be watertight.Wissenschaftlicher ArtikelBand:1Heft:1485 245