Archives of flesh : African America, Spain, and post-humanist critique / Robert F. Reid-Pharr.

Author
Reid-Pharr, Robert, 1965- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Description
xiii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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    Sexual cultures [More in this series]
    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.
    Bibliographic references
    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.
    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
    Other standard number
    • 40026669346
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