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Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
295 kr
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A seminal work that combines ground-breaking philosophy with searing flights of memoir, Afropessimism presents the tenets of an increasingly influential intellectual movement that theorises blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Rather than interpreting slavery through a Marxist framework of class oppression, Frank B. Wilderson III, demonstrates that the social construct of slavery is hardly a relic of the past but an almost necessary force in our civilisation that flourishes today, and that Black struggles cannot be conflated with the experiences of any other oppressed group. In mellifluous prose, he juxtaposes his seemingly idyllic Minneapolis upbringing with the harshness later encountered, whether in Berkeley or Soweto. Afropessimism reverberates with wisdom and painful clarity in the fractured world we inhabit.
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In 1995, a South African journalist informed Frank Wilderson, one of only two American members of the African National Congress (ANC), that President Nelson Mandela considered him "a threat to national security." Wilderson was asked to comment. Incognegro is that "comment." It is also his response to a question posed five years later in a California university classroom: "How come you came back?" Although Wilderson recollects his turbulent life as an expatriate during the furious last gasps of apartheid, Incognegro is at heart a quintessentially American story. During South Africa''s transition, Wilderson taught at universities in Johannesburg and Soweto by day. By night, he helped the ANC coordinate clandestine propaganda, launch psychological warfare, and more. In this mesmerizing political memoir, Wilderson''s lyrical prose flows from unspeakable dilemmas in the red dust and ruin of South Africa to his return to political battles raging quietly on US campuses and in his intimate life. Readers will find themselves suddenly overtaken by the subtle but resolute force of Wilderson''s biting wit, rare vulnerability, and insistence on bearing witness to history no matter the cost.
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PDF, Engelska, 2010489 kr
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Red, White & Black is a provocative critique of socially engaged films and related critical discourse. Offering an unflinching account of race and representation, Frank B. Wilderson III asks whether such films accurately represent the structure of U.S. racial antagonisms. That structure, he argues, is based on three essential subject positions: that of the White (the “settler,” “master,” and “human”), the Red (the “savage” and “half-human”), and the Black (the “slave” and “non-human”). Wilderson contends that for Blacks, slavery is ontological, an inseparable element of their being. From the beginning of the European slave trade until now, Blacks have had symbolic value as fungible flesh, as the non-human (or anti-human) against which Whites have defined themselves as human. Just as slavery is the existential basis of the Black subject position, genocide is essential to the ontology of the Indian. Both positions are foundational to the existence of (White) humanity.
Wilderson provides detailed readings of two films by Black directors, Antwone Fisher (Denzel Washington) and Bush Mama (Haile Gerima); one by an Indian director, Skins (Chris Eyre); and one by a White director, Monster’s Ball (Marc Foster). These films present Red and Black people beleaguered by problems such as homelessness and the repercussions of incarceration. They portray social turmoil in terms of conflict, as problems that can be solved (at least theoretically, if not in the given narratives). Wilderson maintains that at the narrative level, they fail to recognize that the turmoil is based not in conflict, but in fundamentally irreconcilable racial antagonisms. Yet, as he explains, those antagonisms are unintentionally disclosed in the films’ non-narrative strategies, in decisions regarding matters such as lighting, camera angles, and sound.
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
184 kr
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A seminal work that combines ground-breaking philosophy with searing flights of memoir, Afropessimism presents the tenets of an increasingly influential intellectual movement that theorises blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Rather than interpreting slavery through a Marxist framework of class oppression, Frank B. Wilderson III, demonstrates that the social construct of slavery is hardly a relic of the past but an almost necessary force in our civilisation that flourishes today, and that Black struggles cannot be conflated with the experiences of any other oppressed group. In mellifluous prose, he juxtaposes his seemingly idyllic Minneapolis upbringing with the harshness later encountered, whether in Berkeley or Soweto. Afropessimism reverberates with wisdom and painful clarity in the fractured world we inhabit.
Inbunden, Tyska, 2021
327 kr
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Tyska, 2021227 kr
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Was es heißt, Schwarz zu sein: Afropessimismus ist ein Aufschrei und eine radikale Antwort auf eine der drängendsten Fragen unserer ZeitWie erklärt sich die brutale Alltäglichkeit der Gewalt gegen Schwarze Menschen? Warum bestimmt die Geschichte der Sklaverei ihre Erfahrungen bis heute? Wie kommt es, dass Rassismus jeden Aspekt des sozialen, politischen und geistigen Lebens berührt? Frank B. Wilderson III begegnet diesen Fragen in einer Weise, die so komplex ist wie unsere Verstrickungen in sie: Teils einschneidende Analyse, teils bewegendes Memoir, zeugt "Afropessimismus" davon, was es heißt, Schwarz – und das heißt für Wilderson immer zugleich, kein Mensch – zu sein. Er schildert eine nur scheinbar idyllische Kindheit in einem weißen Vorort von Minneapolis, die politisierten 1970er- und 1980er-Jahre, seinen Aktivismus gegen die südafrikanische Apartheid und die Gewalt, die ihm als Wissenschaftler noch heute begegnet. Wildersons Aufmerksamkeit für die Verheerungen eines Schwarzen Lebens in einer weißen Welt zeigen, dass die Unterdrückung der Schwarzen kein Relikt der Vergangenheit ist. Vielmehr bildet sie die unhintergehbare Grundlage jedes Verständnisses von Kultur, Fortschritt und Subjektivität. Auch die unbestreitbaren Erfolge des Civil Rights Movements oder von Black Lives Matter konnten sie nicht grundlegend infrage stellen. Ausgangspunkt von Wildersons Denken ist deshalb die Ausweglosigkeit. "Afropessimismus" fragt, wie sich das Leben als versklavte Person überhaupt erzählen lässt: eine herausfordernde und notwendige Lektüre.