Harlem

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

The African American at the end of the nineteenth century was described by W. E. B. Du Bois as "two souls in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." In the United States today, the hyphen between these two souls-African and American, African-American-is still being negotiated. In "Harlem", Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak engages with twenty-four photographs by Alice Attie as she attempts teleopoiesis, which she describes as a reaching toward the distant other through the empathetic power of the imagination. In the hands of Spivak, teleopoiesis is a kind of identity politics in which one disrupts identity as a result of migration or exile. For the last two decades, Spivak notes, Harlem has been the focus of major economic development. As the old Harlem disappears into a present that simultaneously demands and rejects a cultural essence, Spivak dwells in Attie's images, trying to navigate some middle ground between the rock of social history and the hard place of a collective culture.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-01-11
Mått:15 x 21 x 1 mm
Vikt:255 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:74
Förlag:Seagull Books London Ltd
Medarbetare:Alice Attie
ISBN:9780857420848

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Fotoböcker inom Kultur
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is a University Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and the author of many books, including The Post-Colonial Critic, Nationalism and the Imagination, and, with Judith Butler, Who Sings the Nation-State?, the latter two also published by Seagull Books. Alice Attie is an artist and a writer. She is the author of Harlem on the Verge.

Recensioner i media

"Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is a unique voice of courage and conceptual ambition that addresses public life from the perspective of psychic reality, encouraging us to acknowledge the solidarity and the suffering through which we emerge as subjects of freedom." -Homi K. Bhabha "Spivak has probably done more long-term political good in pioneering feminist and postcolonial studies within global academia than almost any of her theoretical colleagues."-Terry Eagleton "Not only does her world-renowned scholarship range widely from critiques of postcolonial discourse to feminism, Marxism, and globalization, her lifelong search for fresh insights and understanding has transcended the traditional boundaries of discipline while retaining the fire for new knowledge that is the hallmark of a great intellect."-Lee Bollinger, Columbia University"

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