In The Break: The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical TraditionU of Minnesota Press, 9 apr 2003 - 332 pagina's Investigates the connections between jazz, sexual identity, and radical black politics Stylistically brilliant and challenging, much like the music he writes about, Moten’s wide-ranging discussion embraces a variety of disciplines—semiotics, deconstruction, genre theory, social history, and psychoanalysis—to understand the politicized sexuality, particularly homoeroticism, underpinning black radicalism. In the Break is the inaugural volume in Moten’s ambitious intellectual project-to establish an aesthetic genealogy of the black radical tradition |
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... questions of comportment : The " terrible spectacle " that introduced Frederick Douglass to slavery was the beating of his Aunt Hester .... By locating this " horrible exhi- bition " in the first chapter of his 1845 Narrative of the ...
... question here concerns the inevitability of such reproduction even in the denial of it . This is the question of whether the performance of subjectivity — and the subjectivity that Hartman is interested in here is definitely performed ...
... questions : Is there a way to disrupt the totalizing force of the primality Douglass represents ? Is there a way to subject this unavoidable model of subjec- tion to a radical breakdown ? My attempt to address these questions will , I ...
... question concerning slavery , blackness , per- formance , and the ensemble of their ontologies but also with a contra- diction at the heart of the question of value in its relation to personhood that could be said to come into clearer ...
... question . In this sense utterance and response , seen together as encounter , form a kind of call wherein Hester's shrieks improvise both speech and writing . What they echo and initiate in their response to the oaths — that must be ...
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Praying with Eric | 63 |
Tragedy Elegy | 85 |
The Dark Lady and the Sexual Cut | 102 |
German Inversion | 122 |
Round the Five Spot | 149 |
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