RT Article
T1 Recovering the Irrecoverable: Blackness, Melancholy, and Duplicities That Bind
JF Religions
VO 12
IS 4
A1 Winters, Joseph
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1756952124
AB In this article, I critically engage Stephen Best’s provocative text, None Like Us. The article agrees with Best’s general concerns regarding longings for a unified black community or a We before the collective crime of slavery. Yet I contend that melancholy, which Best associates with black studies’ desire to recover a lost object, can be read in a different direction, one that includes both attachment and wound, investment and dissolution. To think with and against Best, I examine Spike Lee’s School Daze in conversation with Freud, Benjamin, and Morrison.
K1 Sigmund Freud
K1 Spike Lee
K1 Stephen Best
K1 Toni Morrison
K1 Walter Benjamin
K1 black studies
K1 Doubling
K1 Melancholy
K1 the irrecoverable
DO 10.3390/rel12040276