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The other side of terror : black women and the culture of US empire / Erica R. Edwards.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edwards, Erica R. (Erica Renee), author.
- Series:
- NYU scholarship online.
- NYU scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Feminist literature--United States--History and criticism.
- Feminist literature.
- African Americans in literature.
- Terrorism in literature.
- Racism in literature.
- Imperialism in literature.
- Literature and society--United States.
- Literature and society.
- African Americans in motion pictures.
- African Americans on television.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (389 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- The year 1968 marked both the height of the worldwide Black liberation struggle and a turning point for the global reach of American power, which was built on the counterinsurgency honed on Black and other oppressed populations at home. The next five decades saw the consolidation of the culture of the American empire through what Erica R. Edwards calls the 'imperial grammars of blackness'. This is a story of state power at its most devious and most absurd, and, at the same time, a literary history of Black feminist radicalism at its most trenchant.
- Contents:
- Introduction: what was to come
- Inform our dreams : Black women and the long War on terror
- The imperial grammars of Blackness : Iraq War circuits and the picture of Black militarism
- 'What kind of skeeza?' : new Black femininity and the seductions of emergency
- Scenes of incorporation; or, passing through
- Perfect grammar : June Jordan and the intelligence of empire
- 'How very American' : Black feminist literature and the occult of paranoia.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1479808415
- 9781479808403
- OCLC:
- 1255227245
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