Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (265 pages)
- New Black Studies Series .
- New Black Studies Series .
Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Introduction by John Carlos Rowe -- 1. The Conceptual Impossibility of Racial Blackness: History, the Commodity, and Diasporic Modernity -- 2. Making the Flesh Word: Binomial Being and Representational Presence -- 3. Captivity, Desire, Trade: The Forging of National Form -- 4. The Intimate Civic: The Disturbance of the Quotidian -- 5. Modernism and the Affects of Racial Blackness -- Epilogue by Justin A. Joyce and Dwight A. McBride -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.