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  1. Richard Wright’s Anagrammatical Allegory of Liturgical Reading, or Inhabiting the Black Messianic in “The Man Who Lived Underground”
    Autor*in: Kaplan, Andrew Santana
    Erschienen: 2021

    This essay reads Richard Wright’s speculative novella, “The Man Who Lived Underground” (1940/1996), as an anagrammatical allegory of liturgical reading. By anagrammatical, I invoke Christina Sharpe’s understanding of how Blackness singularly “exists... mehr

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    This essay reads Richard Wright’s speculative novella, “The Man Who Lived Underground” (1940/1996), as an anagrammatical allegory of liturgical reading. By anagrammatical, I invoke Christina Sharpe’s understanding of how Blackness singularly “exists as an index of violability and also potentiality” in its foreclosure from the World’s grammar of anti-Blackness. With allegory (of reading), I draw attention to both (1) how Wright recasts Plato’s allegory of the cave in modern America and, following Paul de Man, (2) how Wright’s text is an allegory of un/readability. Finally, with liturgy, I draw on Giorgio Agamben’s understanding of mystery as a performance that (re-)enacts the text. This leads me to theorize that Wright’s anagrammatical allegory of liturgical reading brings the reader into speculative attunement to the Black messianic, which is a radical mode of fidelity to the Black’s singular positionality in aspiring to the un-veiling [apo-kalyptein] of the katechontic anti-Black World – toward gratuitous messianic freedom.

     
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    Sprache: Englisch
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    Übergeordneter Titel: Enthalten in: Political theology; Abingdon : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 1999; 22(2021), 4, Seite 279-295; Online-Ressource

    Schlagworte: Paul; Agamben; Afropessimism; profanation; reading; apocalyptic; messianic; liturgy; allegory; anagrammatical; Blackness; Richard Wright
  2. Cyborg Black Studies : Tracing the Impact of Technological Change on the Constitution of Blackness.
    Autor*in: Weier, Sebastian; Broeck, Sabine; Febel, Gisela
    Erschienen: 2015

  3. Cyborg Black Studies : Tracing the Impact of Technological Change on the Constitution of Blackness. ; Cyborg Black Studies : Eine Untersuchung der Auswirkungen des technologischen Wandels auf die Konstitution von Blackness im Sinne kulturell-politischer Rassekonstruktionen.
    Autor*in: Weier, Sebastian
    Erschienen: 2015
    Verlag:  Universität Bremen ; Fachbereich 10: Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (FB 10)

    The dissertation offers a meta-theoretical and decolonial critique of epistemological and methodological approaches in Political Theory and Black Studies. Structured in three parts, it begins by arguing that prevalent models in subject theory cannot... mehr

     

    The dissertation offers a meta-theoretical and decolonial critique of epistemological and methodological approaches in Political Theory and Black Studies. Structured in three parts, it begins by arguing that prevalent models in subject theory cannot account for the specific situation of enslaved or colonized people. Focusing on the former, approaches by afropessimist authors are combined with a schizo-analytical methodology to develop a theory of the abjection of Blackness as inherent to (post-)modernity and models of (post-)humanism. The second part applies this model to cinema and phonography, introducing the racial glitch to describe how technologies can break open the suturation of bodies with blackness as a racialized social category. The third part condenses the results of the prior sections into Cyborg Black Studies , mobilizing the term cyborg as a trope to unthink the abjection inherent to notions of the human and offering a new methodology geared towards that goal.

     
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