Sentient flesh: thinking in disorder, poiēsis in black
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on translation and transliteration -- Preface: preliminary signposts -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Body and Flesh -- On Lohengrin’s Swan -- Sentient Flesh -- Sentient Flesh Dancing -- Poiēsis in Black -- Para-Semiosis -- Gifting Blues L...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Durham
Duke University Press
[2020]
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Series/Journal: | Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Girard, René 1923-2015
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
B SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global) B Critical Theory B African Americans Race identity B Mind and body B Race B Race Psychological aspects B PHILOSOPHY / Generals |
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| Summary: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on translation and transliteration -- Preface: preliminary signposts -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Body and Flesh -- On Lohengrin’s Swan -- Sentient Flesh -- Sentient Flesh Dancing -- Poiēsis in Black -- Para-Semiosis -- Gifting Blues Love-Improper -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index In Sentient Flesh R. A. Judy takes up freedman Tom Windham’s 1937 remark “we should have our liberty 'cause . . . us is human flesh' as a point of departure for an extended meditation on questions of the human, epistemology, and the historical ways in which the black being is understood. Drawing on numerous fields, from literary theory and musicology, to political theory, phenomenology, as well as Greek and Arabic philosophy, Judy engages literary texts and performative practices such as music and dance that express knowledge and conceptions of humanity appositional to those grounding modern racialized capitalism. Operating as critiques of Western humanism, these practices and modes of being-in-the-world—which Judy theorizes as “thinking in disorder,” or “poiēsis in black”—foreground the irreducible concomitance of flesh, thinking, and personhood. As Judy demonstrates, recognizing this concomitance is central to finding a way past the destructive force of ontology that still holds us in thrall. Erudite and capacious, Judy’s Sentient Flesh offers a major intervention into the black study of life |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (619 p) |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4780-1255-9 |
| Access: | Restricted Access |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/9781478012559 |
