Where black bodies lie: historiography, race, and the place of Eros

This essay explores how considering the treatment and location of black bodies in the American figurative and literal imagination forces us to reconsider the place of eros as a mechanism for archival ethics. Through an examination the commentary provided by Lynne Huffer’s essay “Strange Eros” (2016)...

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1. VerfasserIn: Manigault-Bryant, LeRhonda S. (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch/Druck Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Taylor & Francis [2016]
In: Theology & sexuality
Jahr: 2016, Band: 22, Heft: 3, Seiten: 165-174
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Huffer, Lynne 1960- / Foucault, Michel 1926-1984 / Eros (Begriff) / Schwarze / Körper / Politik
RelBib Classification:NBE Anthropologie
NCF Sexualethik
VA Philosophie
ZC Politik
weitere Schlagwörter:B Eros
B #BlackLivesMatter
B black corporeality
B Foucault
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Zusammenfassung:This essay explores how considering the treatment and location of black bodies in the American figurative and literal imagination forces us to reconsider the place of eros as a mechanism for archival ethics. Through an examination the commentary provided by Lynne Huffer’s essay “Strange Eros” (2016) and consideration of Michel Foucault’s treatment of the historical a priori, I reveal how eros, while powerful in its potential as a political possibility, is also a strange consideration for black people. With the #BlackLivesMatter movement as a contemporary site of black futurity, I contend that the intersection of eros, political possibility, and black existence point to opportunities for systemic change that will free black bodies - whether gendered, sexed, and/or queered - from the rigid constructions of embodiment upon which they were initially framed.
ISSN:1355-8358
Enthält:Enthalten in: Theology & sexuality
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2017.1329884