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Archives of flesh : African America, Spain, and post-humanist critique / Robert F. Reid-Pharr.
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Reid-Pharr, Robert, 1965-
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Description
xiii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PS153.N5 R46 2016
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Subject(s)
American literature
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African American authors
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History and criticism
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African American authors
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Criticism and interpretation
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African Americans
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Intellectual life
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20th century
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Intellectuals
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Spain
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History
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20th century
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African Americans in literature
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Humanism in literature
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Sexual cultures
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Summary note
Robert Reid-Pharr reveals the deep history of intellectual engagement between African America and Spain. Opening a fascinating window onto black and anti-Fascist intellectual life from 1898 through the mid-1950s, Reid-Pharr argues that key institutions of Western Humanism, including American colleges and universities, developed in intimate relation to slavery, colonization, and white supremacy. This retreat to rigidly established philosophical and critical traditions can never fully address-or even fully recognize-the deep-seated hostility to black subjectivity underlying the humanist ideal of a transcendent Manhood. Calling for a specifically anti-white supremacist reexamination of the archives of black subjectivity and resistance, Reid-Pharr enlists the principles of post-humanist critique in order to investigate decades of intimate dialogues between African American and Spanish intellectuals, including Salaria Kea, Federico Garcia Lorca, Nella Larsen, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Chester Himes, Lynn Nottage, and Pablo Picasso. In the process Reid-Pharr takes up the "African American Spanish Archive" in order to resist the anti-corporeal, anti-black, anti-human biases that stand at the heart of Western Humanism.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-242) and index.
Contents
War archive
Lorca's deathly poetics
Langston's adventures in the dark
Primitive at the plantation's edge
Richard Wright in the house of girls.
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ISBN
9781479885732 ((hardback ; : acid-free paper))
1479885738 ((hardback ; : acid-free paper))
9781479843626 ((pbk. ; : acid-free paper))
1479843628 ((pbk. ; : acid-free paper))
LCCN
2016023897
OCLC
946161295
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40026669346
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