Sentient flesh : thinking in disorder, poiēsis in Black /

In Sentient Flesh R. A. Judy takes up freedman Tom Windham's 1937 remark "we should have our liberty 'cause us is human flesh' as a point of departure for an extended meditation on questions of the human, epistemology and the historical ways in which the black being is understood...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Judy, R.A., 1954- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, [2020]
Series:Black outdoors.
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Table of Contents:
  • Body and Flesh
  • On Lohengrin's Swan
  • A Style of Interiority and Thinking
  • Asymptotic Thinking
  • By Interiority Free of Eschatology
  • Sentient Flesh
  • An Ontologically Discordant Being
  • By Discrepant Taxonomy
  • A Semiosis of Flesh Thinking
  • By Flesh Speaking Semiologically
  • Sentient Flesh Dancing
  • Juba and the Buzzard Lope Play
  • Ethnographic Epistemēs Abuts Performative Technē Poiētikē
  • Poiēsis in Black
  • Consciousness Articulated with Semiosis
  • Doctrine of Submission with "The Renaissance of Ethics"
  • Para-semiosis
  • All that Comes with Paraontology
  • Worldliness
  • Historicity
  • Primitive Thingliness
  • The They of Primitive We
  • In Para-semiosis, Divisible Person Us Be
  • Us Ain't Paraontological
  • Para-semiosis, being-in-flight-with-one-another
  • Love ain't Sacrificial
  • Para-semiosis, Poiēsis in Black and Love-improper
  • Coda, Gifting Blues Love-improper.