Affective Intellectuals and the Space of Catastrophe in the Americas / Judith Sierra-Rivera.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sierra-Rivera, Judith, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Columbus, OH : The Ohio State University Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Most importantly, the book shows how literature constitutes an alternative public sphere for Black people. In a society largely controlled by white supremacist actors and institutions, Black authors have conjured fiction into a space where hard questions can be asked and answered and where the work of combatting collective, racist suppression can occur without replicating oppressive hierarchies. Intimate Antagonisms uncovers a key theme in Black fiction and argues that literature itself is a vital institutional site within Black life. Through the examination of intimate conflicts in a wide array of twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels, Blake demonstrates the centrality of intraracial relations to the complexity and vision of Black social movements and liberation struggles and the power and promise of Black narrative in reshaping struggle.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 103024

ISBN:

9780814254950

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access