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"To think of creativity in terms of transcendence is itself specific and partial--a lovely dream perhaps, but an inhuman one. "It is not only white writers who make a prize of transcendence, of course. Many writers of all backgrounds see the imagination as ahistorical, as a generative place where race doesn't and shouldn't enter, a place of bodies that transcend the legislative, the economic--in other words, transcend the stuff that doesn't lend itself much poetry. In this view the imagination is postracial, a posthistorical and postpolitical utopia. . . . To bring up race for these writers is to inch close to the anxious space of affirmative action, the scarring qualifieds. "So everyone is here."--Claudia Rankine and Beth Loffreda, from the introduction In 2011, a poem published in a national magazine by a popular white male poet made use of a black female body. A conversation ensued, and ended. Claudia Rankine subsequently created Open Letter, a web forum for writers to relate the effects and affects of racial difference and to explore art's failure, thus far, to adequately imagine"--Provided by publisher.

Race in literature. --- Courses --- Race relations in literature. --- American literature --- Littérature américaine --- Poetry --- African Americans in literature. --- Noirs américains --- Dans la littérature. --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Histoire et crtitique. --- Black authors

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Relations interethniques --- Noirs américains --- Au cinéma --- film --- filmgeschiedenis --- afro-amerikaanse film --- Roemer Michael --- Young Robert --- filmregisseurs --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- 791.43 --- Au cinéma.

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What does it mean to be Black? If Blackness is not biological in origin but socially and discursively constructed, does the meaning of Blackness change over time and space? In Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology, Michelle M. Wright argues that although we often explicitly define Blackness as a "what," it in fact always operates as a "when" and a "where."By putting lay discourses on spacetime from physics into conversation with works on identity from the African Diaspora, Physics of Blackness explores how Middle Passage epistemology subverts racist assumptions about Blackness, yet its linear structure inhibits the kind of inclusive epistemology of Blackness needed in the twenty-first century. Wright then engages with bodies frequently excluded from contemporary mainstream consideration: Black feminists, Black queers, recent Black African immigrants to the West, and Blacks whose histories may weave in and out of the Middle Passage epistemology but do not cohere to it.Physics of Blackness takes the reader on a journey both known and unfamiliar-from Isaac Newton's laws of motion and gravity to the contemporary politics of diasporic Blackness in the academy, from James Baldwin's postwar trope of the Eiffel Tower as the site for diasporic encounters to theoretical particle physics' theory of multiverses and superpositioning, to the almost erased lives of Black African women during World War II. Accessible in its style, global in its perspective, and rigorous in its logic, Physics of Blackness will change the way you look at Blackness.

African diaspora --- Blacks --- Identity (Psychology) --- Race identity --- Black people. --- Black people --- Race identity. --- Africains --- African American. --- African Americans. --- African diaspora. --- Afrikansk diaspora. --- Blacks. --- Identitet (psykologi). --- Identity (Psychology). --- Identité (Psychologie). --- Noirs américains. --- Svarta.

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Black Atlas presents definitive new approaches to black geography. It focuses attention on the dynamic relationship between place and African American literature during the long nineteenth century, a volatile epoch of national expansion that gave rise to the Civil War, Reconstruction, Pan–Americanism, and the black novel. Judith Madera argues that spatial reconfiguration was a critical concern for the era's black writers, and she also demonstrates how the possibility for new modes of representation could be found in the radical redistricting of space. Madera reveals how crucial geography was to the genre-bending works of writers such as William Wells Brown, Martin Delany, James Beckwourth, Pauline Hopkins, Charles Chesnutt, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson. These authors intervened in major nineteenth-century debates about free soil, regional production, Indian deterritorialization, internal diasporas, pan–American expansionism, and hemispheric circuitry. Black geographies stood in for what was at stake in negotiating a shared world.

Littérature américaine --- Littérature et géographie --- Lieu (philosophie) --- Territorialité humaine --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Histoire et critique --- Dans la littérature --- American literature --- African American authors --- History and criticism --- 19th century --- Brown, William Wells --- Criticism and interpretation --- Delany, Martin Robison --- Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore --- Beckwourth, James Pierson --- Dans la littérature. --- Histoire et critique.

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"Nadia Ellis attends to African diasporic belonging as it comes into being through black expressive culture. Living in the diaspora, Ellis asserts, means existing between claims to land and imaginative flights unmoored from the earth--that is, to live within the territories of the soul. Drawing on the work of José Esteban Muñoz, Ellis connects queerness's utopian potential with diasporic aesthetics. Occupying the territory of the soul, being neither here nor there, creates in diasporic subjects feelings of loss, desire, and a sensation of a pull from elsewhere. Ellis locates these phenomena in the works of C. L. R. James, the testy encounter between George Lamming and James Baldwin at the 1956 Congress of Negro Artists and Writers in Paris, the elusiveness of the queer diasporic subject in Andrew Salkey's novel Escape to an Autumn Pavement, and the trope of spirit possession in Nathaniel Mackey's writing and Burning Spear's reggae. Ellis's use of queer and affect theory shows how geographies claim diasporic subjects in ways that nationalist or masculinist tropes can never fully capture. Diaspora, Ellis concludes, is best understood as a mode of feeling and belonging, one fundamentally shaped by the experience of loss"--Page [4] of cover.

Littérature américaine --- Littérature caribéenne --- Théorie queer --- Homosexualité --- Africains --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Dans la littérature. --- African diaspora. --- American literature --- Caribbean literature --- Englisch. --- Group identity. --- Gruppenidentität. --- Literatur. --- Queer theory. --- Queer-Theorie. --- Schwarze. --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- African American authors. --- Black authors --- Black authors. --- Karibik. --- USA.