{"product_id":"masquerade-scripturalizing-modernities-through-black-flesh-9781978715127","title":"Masquerade: Scripturalizing Modernities through","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContinuing his project of critical analysis of the scriptural formation of culture, Vincent L. Wimbush has gathered in this book essays by scholars of various backgrounds and orientations that focus in different registers on the theme of masquerade as the “play-element” in modern culture. Masquerade functions as window onto the mimetic performances, dynamics, arrangements, psycho-logics, and politics (“scripturalizing”) by which the “made-up” becomes fixed or realities or (“scripturalization”). Modern-world racialization (and its attendant explosions into racialisms and racisms) as the hyper-scripturalization of difference in human flesh (registered in psycho-social relations as a type of “scripture”) is argued in this book to be one of the most consequential examples and reflections of masquerade and thereby one of the primary impetuses behind and determinants of the shape of the realities of modernities. The open window onto these realities is facilitated by touchstone references to—not exhaustive treatment of—a now famous eighteenth-century life story, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (1789). This story told by a complexly positioned Black-fleshed self-acknowledged ex-slave\/“stranger” is itself a “mask-ing” that throws light on the predominantly white Anglophone world as masking (as scriptural formation). Equiano\/Vassa’s story as masking helps makes a compelling case for analyzing through Black flesh the ongoing shaping of the modern and the perduring mixed when not also devastating consequences. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Everything About Me Was Magic”: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Black-Fleshed and the Making and Management of Modernities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVincent L. Wimbush\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Scripturalectics and Masquerading Flesh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShay Welch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Under the Sign of “The African”: Masquerade and Identity Formation and Deployment in Equiano…Vassa’s Interesting Narrative\/Memoir\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarolyn M. Jones Medine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Within the Veil and Between the Masks: Reflections on Unveilings and Unmaskings after the Apocalypse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacqueline Hidalgo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Between the Veil and the Mirror: Josephine Baker and the Scripturalization of Black Modernity in France\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCécile Coquet-Mokoko\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Whose Flesh? Flesh Tone as Scripturalization in the Art and Practice of Ballet \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eP. Kimberleigh Jordan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 “Relentlessly Pursu[ing] All Who Live in Darkness”: The African Read as Bondage Through Devotional Missionary Life Writing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRachel E. C. Beckley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Seeking Solace: Finding Hush Harbors for Healing Scripturalization Horrors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVelma E. Love\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Toni Morrison and the Masquerade of Black Oral Imprint with a Meditation on The Preparation of Soft-Boiled Eggs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiles P. Grier\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 “There Remains Only Constant Struggle”: Scholarship as Telling Stories of Radical Black Subjectivities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRosetta Ross\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 Olaudah Equiano\/Gustavus Vassa and Kossola or Cujo Lewis: History Writing and the Masquerade\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarla Frederick\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043446260055,"sku":"9781978715127","price":65.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781978715127.jpg?v=1750958260","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/masquerade-scripturalizing-modernities-through-black-flesh-9781978715127","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}