Calculations of Race and Reason: Theorizing the Psychic and the SocialДЎ1. Dead Men Printed: Tupac Shakur, Biggie Smalls, and Hip-Hop Eulogy 237 Black Men in the Mix: Badboys, Heroes, Sequins, and Dennis Rodman 212ДЎ0. The Gaze of Langston Hughes: Subjectivity, Homoeroticism, and the Feminine in The Big Sea 193Д©. Identities and Identity Studies: Reading Toni Cade Bambra's 'The Hammer Man' 171ДЁ. Imagining Collectively: Identity, Individuality, and Other Social PhantasmsД§. Delaney's From the Darkness Cometh the Light 139 Self-Knowledge, Law, and African American Autobiography: Lucy A.

Hand-Writing: Legibility and the White Body in Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom 119Д¦. African-American Slave Narratives: Literacy, the Body, Authority 92ДҐ. Gestures of Inscription: African American Slave NarrativesД¤. Redoubling American Studies: John Carlos Rowe and Cultural Criticism 61 The Experiences of Slave Narratives: Reading against Authenticity 48ДЈ. Institutions, Classrooms, Failures: African American Literature and Critical Theory in the Same Small Spaces 31Дў. In the Classroom, In the Academy: Situating African American Literature, Theory, and CultureДЎ. Introduction: Unruly Knowledges / Janet Neary 1 Preface: Contrary to Appearances / Jennifer DeVere Brody xi Spillers, author of Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture Conditions of the Present is having none of it: in Barrett's readings, these textual neighbors powerfully meld to our collective benefit.' - Hortense J. African American literary and cultural studies and poststructuralist persuasions in general are customarily thought of as not only disparate intellectual technologies, but widely divergent human and historical orders. 'This impressive collection of essays by Lindon Barrett, one of the most brilliant theoreticians of his generation, carves a pathway between two discrete fields of discourse and brings them into mutual attraction. We are still-or ought still to be-catching up with Lindon Barrett, for his work conditions our ongoing present.вЂќ - David Kazanjian, author of The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World This lovingly curated collection is an impossible thank you for his critical wisdom, as well as a demanding provocation to wise up.

Reading Lindon Barrett is unsettling, because he was a scholar who never settled. вЂњIt is difficult to imagine a more urgent intellectual return, or a more vital work of mourning, than Conditions of the Present. Elizabeth Alexander, Jennifer DeVere Brody, Daphne A. Deploying Marxist, psychoanalytic, feminist, and queer theories, Barrett explicates the interrelationship of desire and subjection to expose the violence and coercion embedded in narratives of 'progress.' Ultimately, this collection emphasizes Lindon Barrett's vital and enduring contribution to African American studies.Д¬ontributors. nationalist discourse, Barrett interrogates the mechanisms that shape social and subjective structures and that grant certain people power while withholding it from others. Whether analyzing autobiographies by Lucy Delaney or Langston Hughes, hip-hop eulogies, or the formation of U.S. Barrett confronts critical blind spots within both academic and popular discourse, offering readings of cultural and literary texts that transcend institutional divides and the gulf between academia and the street. Labor and Working-Class History AssociationД¬onditions of the Present collects essays by the late Lindon Barrett, whose scholarship centers African American literature as a site from which to theorize race and liberation in the United States.Association for Middle East Women's Studies.Author Resources from University Presses.Journals fulfilled by DUP Journal Services.

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