Tag: Blackness

December 8, 2024

Cervantine Blackness

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Free Download Nicholas R. Jones, "Cervantine Blackness "
English | ISBN: 0271098783 | 2024 | 202 pages | PDF | 18 MB
There is no shortage of Black characters in Miguel de Cervantes’s works, yet there has been a profound silence about the Spanish author’s compelling literary construction and cultural codification of Black Africans and sub-Saharan Africa. In Cervantine Blackness, Nicholas R. Jones reconsiders in what sense Black subjects possess an inherent value within Cervantes’s cultural purview and literary corpus.

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January 30, 2024

The Fact of Blackness Frantz Fanon and Visual Representation

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Free Download The Fact of Blackness: Frantz Fanon and Visual Representation By Alan Read (editor), Homi K. Bhabha, Stuart Hall, bell hooks, Gilane Tawadros, Françoise Vergès, Lola Young, Martina Attille, Mark Latamie, Kobena Mercer, Isaac Julien, Renee Green, Lyle Ashton Harris, Ntozake Shange, Mark Nash, Raoul Peck
1996 | 212 Pages | ISBN: 0941920437 | PDF | 4 MB
Cultural Studies. African American Studies. Visual Arts. THE FACT OF BLACKNESS: FRANTZ FANON AND VISUAL REPRESENTATION is a collection of essays that create a far-reaching and original dialogue between cultural theory and visual practice. The rich insights which emerge from this collection explain why Frantz Fanon’s seminal texts of the 1950s and 60s, Black Skin White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth, have re-emerged at the forefront of postcolonial studies. Ranging between the contemporary politics of location, everyday traumas of social inequality, and the structures and technologies of representation, these dialogues re-affirm the contention of Fanon’s writings: that narrative, the media, image and symbol lie at the very heart of the practice of politics and social knowledge. Includes essays by Homi K. Bhabha, Stuart Hill, bell hooks, Kobena Mercer, Françoise Vergès, Lola Young, and many others.

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January 5, 2024

The Blackness of Black Key Concepts in Critical Discourse

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Free Download William David Hart, "The Blackness of Black: Key Concepts in Critical Discourse "
English | ISBN: 1793615861 | 2020 | 262 pages | EPUB, PDF | 546 KB + 6 MB
This book explores the relations among blackness, antiblackness, and Black people within the discourse of the blackness of black. This critical discourse developed during the last two decades as scholars explored what Saidiya Hartman describes as the afterlife of slavery. Hartman’s concept, which argues for a troubling continuity between the status of enslaved and emancipated Black people, is the pivot between discursive tributaries and trajectories. Tributaries of the discourse of the blackness of black comprise five foundational concepts: Frantz Fanon’s "phobogenic blackness," Orlando Patterson’s "social death," Cedric Robinson’s "racial capitalism and the black radical tradition," and Hortense Spillers’ "flesh." The book traces three trajectories within the afterlife of slavery: Frank Wilderson’s " Afropessimism," Fred Moten’s "generative blackness," and Calvin Warren’s "black nihilism." This ensemble of concepts enable us to understand what is at state in how we understand the relations among blackness, antiblackness, and Black people.

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January 5, 2024

Reimagining Hagar Blackness and Bible

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Free Download Nyasha Junior, "Reimagining Hagar: Blackness and Bible "
English | ISBN: 019874532X | 2019 | 176 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 9 MB
Reimagining Hagar illustrates that while interpretations of Hagar as Black are not frequent within the entire history of her interpretation, such interpretations are part of strategies to emphasize elements of Hagar’s story in order to associate or disassociate her from particular groups. It considers how interpreters engage markers of difference, including gender, ethnicity, status and their intersections in their portrayals of Hagar. Nyasha Junior offers a reception history that examines interpretations of Hagar with a focus on interpretations of Hagar as a Black woman. Reception history within biblical studies considers the use, impact, and influence of biblical texts and looks at a necessarily small number of points within the long history of the transmission of biblical texts. This volume covers a limited selection of interpretations over time that is not intended to be a representative sample of interpretations of Hagar. It is beyond the scope of this book to offer a comprehensive collection of interpretations of Hagar throughout the history of biblical interpretation or in popular culture. Junior argues for the African presence in biblical texts; identifies and responds to White supremacist interpretations; offers cultural-historical interpretation that attends to the history of biblical interpretation within Black communities; and provides ideological criticism that uses the African-American context as a reading strategy.

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January 4, 2024

Of Effacement Blackness and Non-Being

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Free Download David Marriott, "Of Effacement: Blackness and Non-Being "
English | ISBN: 1503637255 | 2023 | 410 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 10 MB
In Of Effacement, David Marriott endeavors to demolish established opinion about what blackness is and reorient our understanding of what it is not in art, philosophy, autobiography, literary theory, political theory, and psychoanalysis. With the critical rigor and polemical bravura which he displayed in Whither Fanon? Marriott here considers the relationships between language, judgement and effacement, and shows how effacement has become the dominant force in anti-blackness. Both skeptically and emphatically, Marriott presents a series of radical philosophical engagements with Fanon’s "is not" (n’est pas) and its "black" political truth. How does one speak-let alone represent-that which is without existence? Is blackness n’est pas because it has yet to be thought as blackness? And if so, when Fanon writes of blackness, that it is

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