Between shadows and noise : sensation, situatedness, and the undisciplined / Amber Jamilla Musser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Musser, Amber Jamilla, author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory--Political aspects.

Feminist theory.

Imperialism.

Black people--Race identity.

Black people.

Queer theory.

Sensuality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 194 pages).

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"In Between Shadows and Noise, Amber Musser develops a sensuous method of analysis by moving past the representational clarity of Enlightenment thinking and into the irrational and vulnerable space of shadow and the unruly and excessive dimensions of noise. For Musser, shadows and noise are categories of embodied relation or critical situatedness--modes of attending to context, relation, and hierarchy through affective and sensorial body work. The book's analysis of various art objects, such as Jordan Peele's film US and Samita Sinha's sound performance This Ember State, is rooted in Musser's own autobiographical situatedness as a queer middle-class Black Caribbean expatriate woman and the various politics of difference those identities emerge from. Through a series of meditations on blackness, empire, and colonialism, Between Shadows and Noise offers Black feminist methods for sensing one's way through art (and living) using knowledges held by the body"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Us, the Uncanny, and the Threat of Black Femininity

Inside Out: Shango and Spectacles of the Spirit

Noise and the Body-Place: This Ember State and the Critical Encounter

On the Brink: Approximation, Difference, and Ongoing Storms

Tamarind, Metabolism, and Rest: Making Racialized Labor Visible

Inflammation: Notes from the Front.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Musser, Amber Jamilla. Between shadows and noise.

ISBN:

9781478059097

1478059095

Access Restriction:

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