The Nigrescent Beyond
Mexico, the United States, and the Psychic Vanishing of Blackness
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2020
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-4204-6 (ISBN)
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-4204-6 (ISBN)
Despite New Spain's significant participation in the early transatlantic slave trade, the collective imagination of the Mexican nation evolved in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to understand itself as devoid of a black presence. Ricardo Wilson proposes a framework for understanding this psychic vanishing of blackness.
Despite New Spain’s significant participation in the early transatlantic slave trade, the collective imagination of the Mexican nation evolved in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to understand itself as devoid of a black presence. In The Nigrescent Beyond, Ricardo Wilson proposes a framework for understanding this psychic vanishing of blackness and thinks through how it can be used both to productively unsettle contemporary multicultural and postracial discourses within the United States and to further the interrogations of being and blackness within the larger field of black studies.
Wilson models a practice of reading that honors the disruptive possibilities offered by an ever-present awareness of that which lies, irretrievable, beyond the horizon of vanishing itself. In doing so, he engages with historical accounts detailing maroon activities in early New Spain, contemporary coverage of the push to make legible Afro-Mexican identities, the electronic archives of the Obama presidency, and the work of Carlos de SigÜenza y GÓngora, Octavio Paz, Ivan Van Sertima, Miguel Covarrubias, Steven Spielberg, and Colson Whitehead, among others.
Despite New Spain’s significant participation in the early transatlantic slave trade, the collective imagination of the Mexican nation evolved in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to understand itself as devoid of a black presence. In The Nigrescent Beyond, Ricardo Wilson proposes a framework for understanding this psychic vanishing of blackness and thinks through how it can be used both to productively unsettle contemporary multicultural and postracial discourses within the United States and to further the interrogations of being and blackness within the larger field of black studies.
Wilson models a practice of reading that honors the disruptive possibilities offered by an ever-present awareness of that which lies, irretrievable, beyond the horizon of vanishing itself. In doing so, he engages with historical accounts detailing maroon activities in early New Spain, contemporary coverage of the push to make legible Afro-Mexican identities, the electronic archives of the Obama presidency, and the work of Carlos de SigÜenza y GÓngora, Octavio Paz, Ivan Van Sertima, Miguel Covarrubias, Steven Spielberg, and Colson Whitehead, among others.
Ricardo A. Wilson II is an assistant professor in the Department of English and affiliate faculty in the Program in Comparative Literature at Williams College.
Introduction
Chapter One: Impossible Yanga
Chapter Two: On Apparent Emanations
Chapter Three: The Gravity of Lincoln and the Matter of Black Life in the Liberal Imagination
Chapter Four: The Olmecs and the Inevitability of Holeness
Chapter Five: 2020 Visions
Afterthought: Nigrescent Futures
Notes
Bibliography
Erscheinungsdatum | 24.07.2020 |
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Zusatzinfo | 7 black & white images |
Verlagsort | Evanston |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 240 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8101-4204-X / 081014204X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8101-4204-6 / 9780810142046 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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