Conditions of the present : selected essays /
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Durham :
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2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Contrary to appearances / Jennifer DeVere Brody
- Unruly knowledges / Janet Neary
- In the classroom, in the academy: situating African American literature, theory, and culture introduction
- Institutions, classrooms, failures: African American literature and critical theory in the same small spaces
- The experiences of slave narratives: reading against authenticity
- Redoubling American studies: John Carlos Rowe and cultural criticism
- Gestures of inscription: African American slave narratives
- African-American slave narratives: literacy, the body, authority
- Hand-writing: legibility and the white body in running a thousand miles for freedom
- Self-knowledge, law, and African American autobiography: Lucy A. Delaney's from the darkness cometh the light
- Imagining collectively: identity, individuality, and other social phantasms
- Identities and identity studies: reading Toni Cade Bambara's "The hammer man"
- The gaze of Langston Hughes: subjectivity, homoeroticism, and the feminine in the big sea
- Black men in the mix: badboys, heroes, sequins, and Dennis Rodman
- Dead men printed: tupac shakur, biggie smalls, and hip-hop eulogy
- Calculations of race and reason: theorizing the psychic and the social
- Presence of mind: detection and racialization in "the murders in the rue morgue"
- Family values/critical values: "the chaos of our strongest feelings" and African American women's writing of the 1890s
- Mercantilism, u.s. Federalism, and the market within reason: the "people" and the conceptual impossibility of racial blackness
- Afterword: Remembering Lindon Barrett / Elizabeth Alexander.