None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life - Paperback
by Stephen Best
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478001508ISBN-10:147800150XUPC:9781478001508Book Category:Social Science, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, LGBTQ+ Studies, AmericanBook Topic:American, Gay Studies, African American & BlackSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7408Product ID:SC5E44H5R9
It passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In None Like Us Stephen Best reappraises what he calls "melancholy historicism"--a kind of crime scene investigation in which the forensic imagination is directed toward the recovery of a "we" at the point of "our" violent origin. Best argues that there is and can...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478001508ISBN-10:147800150XUPC:9781478001508Book Category:Social Science, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, LGBTQ+ Studies, AmericanBook Topic:American, Gay Studies, African American & BlackSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7408Product ID:SC5E44H5R9
Stephen Best is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession.
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