{"product_id":"conditions-of-the-present-9780822370321","title":"Conditions of the Present","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eConditions of the Present\u003c\/i\u003e collects essays by the late Lindon Barrett that theorize race and liberation in the United States, confront critical blind spots within both academic and popular discourse, and speak across institutional divides and the gulf between academia and the street.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eConditions of the Present \u003c\/i\u003evalidates Lindon Barrett’s brilliant career in African American studies. Recommended.” -- L. L. Johnson * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface: Contrary to Appearances \/ Jennifer DeVere Brody  xi\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xv\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Unruly Knowledges \/ Janet Neary  1\u003cbr\u003e I. In the Classroom, In the Academy: Situating African American Literature, Theory, and Culture\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Linh U. Hua  25\u003cbr\u003e 1. Institutions, Classrooms, Failures: African American Literature and Critical Theory in the Same Small Spaces  31\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Experiences of Slave Narratives: Reading against Authenticity  48\u003cbr\u003e 3. Redoubling American Studies: John Carlos Rowe and Cultural Criticism  61\u003cbr\u003e II. Gestures of Inscription: African American Slave Narratives\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Daphne A. Brooks  87\u003cbr\u003e 4. African-American Slave Narratives: Literacy, the Body, Authority  92\u003cbr\u003e 5. Hand-Writing: Legibility and the White Body in \u003ci\u003eRunning a Thousand Miles for Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e  119\u003cbr\u003e 6. Self-Knowledge, Law, and African American Autobiography: Lucy A. Delaney's \u003ci\u003eFrom the Darkness Cometh the Light\u003c\/i\u003e  139\u003cbr\u003e III. Imagining Collectively: Identity, Individuality, and Other Social Phantasms\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Marlon B. Ross  165\u003cbr\u003e 7. Identities and Identity Studies: Reading Toni Cade Bambra's \"The Hammer Man\"  171\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Gaze of Langston Hughes: Subjectivity, Homoeroticism, and the Feminine in \u003ci\u003eThe Big Sea\u003c\/i\u003e  193\u003cbr\u003e 9. Black Men in the Mix: Badboys, Heroes, Sequins, and Dennis Rodman  212\u003cbr\u003e 10. Dead Men Printed: Tupac Shakur, Biggie Smalls, and Hip-Hop Eulogy  237\u003cbr\u003e IV. Calculations of Race and Reason: Theorizing the Psychic and the Social\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Robyn Wiegman  273\u003cbr\u003e 11. Presence of Mind: Detection and Racialization in \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue\"  278\u003cbr\u003e 12. Family Values\/Critical Values: \"The Chaos of Our Strongest Feelings\" and African American Women's Writings of the 1890s  299\u003cbr\u003e 13. Mercantilism, U.S. Federalism, and the Market within Reason: The \"People\" and the Conceptual Impossibility of Racial Blackness  320\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: Remembering Lindon Barrett \/ Elizabeth Alexander  353\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  357\u003cbr\u003e Index  361\u003cbr\u003e Credits  375","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406108303703,"sku":"9780822370321","price":112.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822370321.jpg?v=1730494557","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/conditions-of-the-present-9780822370321","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}