Recovering the Irrecoverable: Blackness, Melancholy, and Duplicities That Bind
In this article, I critically engage Stephen Best’s provocative text, None Like Us. The article agrees with Best’s general concerns regarding longings for a unified black community or a We before the collective crime of slavery. Yet I contend that melancholy, which Best associates with black studies...
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Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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[2021]
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Religions
Jahr: 2021, Band: 12, Heft: 4 |
weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Toni Morrison
B black studies B the irrecoverable B Sigmund Freud B Spike Lee B Stephen Best B Walter Benjamin B Doubling B Melancholy |
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Zusammenfassung: | In this article, I critically engage Stephen Best’s provocative text, None Like Us. The article agrees with Best’s general concerns regarding longings for a unified black community or a We before the collective crime of slavery. Yet I contend that melancholy, which Best associates with black studies’ desire to recover a lost object, can be read in a different direction, one that includes both attachment and wound, investment and dissolution. To think with and against Best, I examine Spike Lee’s School Daze in conversation with Freud, Benjamin, and Morrison. |
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ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
Enthält: | Enthalten in: Religions
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3390/rel12040276 |