Conditions of the Present

Lindon Barrett

Published by Duke University Press 2018

Conditions of the Present

Selected Essays

Lindon Barrett

Edited by: Janet Neary

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822372066

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Conditions of the Present collects essays by the late Lindon Barrett that theorize race and liberation in the United States, confront critical blind spots within both academic and popular discourse, and speak across institutional divides and the gulf between academia and the street.

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Lindon Barrett (1961–2008) was Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of California, Riverside, and the author of Blackness and Value: Seeing Double and Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity.

Janet Neary is Associate Professor of English at Hunter College, City University of New York, and the author of Fugitive Testimony: On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface: Contrary to Appearances Jennifer Devere Brody Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
introduction. Unruly Knowledges Janet Neary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. IN THE CLASSROOM, IN THE ACADEMY
Introduction Linh U. Hua Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
CH1. Institutions, Classrooms, Failures: African American Literature and Critical Theory in the Same Small Spaces (1994) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
CH2. The Experiences of Slave Narratives: Reading against Authenticity (1999) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
CH3. Redoubling American Studies: John Carlos Rowe and Cultural Criticism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
II. GESTURES OF INSCRIPTION
Introduction Daphne A. Brooks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
CH4 .African-American Slave Narratives: Literacy, the Body, Authority (1995) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
CH5. Hand-Writing: Legibility and the White Body in Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (1997) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
CH6. Self-Knowledge, Law, and African American Autobiography: Lucy A. Delaney’s From the Darkness Cometh the Light (1993) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
III. IMAGINING COLLECTIVELY
Introduction Marlon B. Ross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
CH7. Identities and Identity Studies: Reading Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Hammer Man” (1998) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
CH8. The Gaze of Langston Hughes: Subjectivity, Homoeroticism, and the Feminine in The Big Sea (1999) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
CH9. Black Men in the Mix: Badboys, Heroes, Sequins, and Dennis Rodman (1997) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
CH10. Dead Men Printed: Tupac Shakur, Biggie Smalls, and Hip-Hop Eulogy (1999) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
IV. CALCULATIONS OF RACE AND REASON
Introduction Robyn Wiegman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
CH11. Presence of Mind: Detection and Racialization in “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (2001) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	278
CH12. Family Values / Critical Values: “The Chaos of Our Strongest Feelings” and African American Women’s Writing of the 1890s Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
CH13. Mercantilism, U.S. Federalism, and the Market within Reason: The “People” and the Conceptual Impossibility of Racial Blackness (2006) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	320
Afterword. Remembering Lindon Barrett Elizabeth Alexander Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
Credits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 400

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Published: February 22, 2018
ISBN: 9780822372066