Sentient flesh: thinking in disorder, poiēsis in black
Examining black performance practices that critique Western humanism, R. A. Judy offers an extended meditation on questions of blackness, the human, epistemology, and the historical ways in which the black being is understood.
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
Durham
Duke University Press
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Series/Journal: | Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study Ser.
Black Outdoors |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Girard, René 1923-2015
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| Further subjects: | B
Race-Psychological aspects
B African Americans Race identity B Mind and body B Race Psychological aspects B Electronic books B African Americans-Race identity |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | Examining black performance practices that critique Western humanism, R. A. Judy offers an extended meditation on questions of blackness, the human, epistemology, and the historical ways in which the black being is understood. Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Translation and Transliteration -- Preface: Preliminary Signposts -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Body and Flesh -- [ 1st Set ] -- On Lohengrin's Swan -- A Style of Interiority and Thinking -- By Modernism Without Flânerie -- Asymptotic Thinking -- By Interiority Free of Eschatology -- Sentient Flesh -- An Ontologically Discordant Being -- By Discrepant Taxonomy -- A Semiosis of Flesh Thinking -- By Flesh Speaking Semiologically -- [ 2nd Set ] -- Sentient Flesh Dancing -- Juba and the Buzzard Lope Play -- Ethnographic Epistēmē Abuts Performative Technē Poiētikē -- Poiēsis in Black -- Consciousness Articulated with Semiosis -- Doctrine of Submission with "The Renaissance of Ethics" -- Para-Semiosis -- All that Comes with Paraontology -- In Para-Semiosis, Divisible Person Us Be -- Coda: Gifting Blues Love-Improper -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (625 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4780-1255-9 |
