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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822334887
ISBN-13
9780822334880
eBay Product ID (ePID)
44184884
Product Key Features
Book Title
Death-Bound-Subject : Richard Wright's Archaeology of Death
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Language
English
Topic
American / African American, Subjects & Themes / Historical events, General, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Literary Criticism
Book Series
Post-Contemporary Interventions Ser.
Format
Perfect
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Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
18.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6.6 in
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2004-028774
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"This is a path-breaking, imaginative, comprehensive, indeed magisterial, analysis of the ways in which death functions in the construction of black subjectivities in Richard Wright's fiction, autobiographies, and journalism. It both expands our understanding of Wright's achievement and models a way in which the spectre of violence, lynching, and death may be seen to shadow and shape a trajectory of African American cultural production."-Valerie Smith, author of Not Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings"Abdul JanMohamed reworks the concept of 'social death' to read Richard Wright in comprehensive and provocative ways. At the same time, he offers a new account of slavery, rewriting Hegel and psychoanalysis along the way to rethink 'lordship and bondage' as the 'death contract' and to discern the precise and various ways in which autonomy and freedom are asserted. This book is enormously impressive in its sweep, its detailed consideration of Wright's corpus, it theoretical ambitions, and the new and compelling paradigms it offers for rethinking slavery, death, and resistance."-Judith Butler, Maxine Elliott Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, "JanMohamed is no crude formalist: his stylistic and narratological analyses are genuinely illuminating and have lots of interesting things to say about the symptomatic repetitions of Wright's fictions. At such moments "The Death-Bound-Subject" is an impressive scholarly addition to Wright studies and to black psychoanalytic cultural theory more generally." --David Marriott, "Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Studies", "This is a path-breaking, imaginative, comprehensive, indeed magisterial, analysis of the ways in which death functions in the construction of black subjectivities in Richard Wright's fiction, autobiographies, and journalism. It both expands our understanding of Wright's achievement and models a way in which the spectre of violence, lynching, and death may be seen to shadow and shape a trajectory of African American cultural production."--Valerie Smith, author of Not Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings "Abdul JanMohamed reworks the concept of 'social death' to read Richard Wright in comprehensive and provocative ways. At the same time, he offers a new account of slavery, rewriting Hegel and psychoanalysis along the way to rethink 'lordship and bondage' as the 'death contract' and to discern the precise and various ways in which autonomy and freedom are asserted. This book is enormously impressive in its sweep, its detailed consideration of Wright's corpus, it theoretical ambitions, and the new and compelling paradigms it offers for rethinking slavery, death, and resistance."--Judith Butler, Maxine Elliott Professor at the University of California, Berkeley "An impressive scholarly and theoretical achievement. . . .The Death-Bound-Subject should become an important work not only for Richard Wright scholarship in particular, but for African American studies and theorizations of subjectivity in general."--Jeffrey Atteberry, Modern Fiction Studies, "This is a path-breaking, imaginative, comprehensive, indeed magisterial, analysis of the ways in which death functions in the construction of black subjectivities in Richard Wright's fiction, autobiographies, and journalism. It both expands our understanding of Wright's achievement and models a way in which the spectre of violence, lynching, and death may be seen to shadow and shape a trajectory of African American cultural production."-Valerie Smith, author of Not Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings, “This is a path-breaking, imaginative, comprehensive, indeed magisterial, analysis of the ways in which death functions in the construction of black subjectivities in Richard Wright’s fiction, autobiographies, and journalism. It both expands our understanding of Wright’s achievement and models a way in which the spectre of violence, lynching, and death may be seen to shadow and shape a trajectory of African American cultural production.�-Valerie Smith, author of Not Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings, "This is a path-breaking, imaginative, comprehensive, indeed magisterial, analysis of the ways in which death functions in the construction of black subjectivities in Richard Wright's fiction, autobiographies, and journalism. It both expands our understanding of Wright's achievement and models a way in which the spectre of violence, lynching, and death may be seen to shadow and shape a trajectory of African American cultural production."--Valerie Smith, author of Not Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings, "Abdul JanMohamed reworks the concept of 'social death' to read Richard Wright in comprehensive and provocative ways. At the same time, he offers a new account of slavery, rewriting Hegel and psychoanalysis along the way to rethink 'lordship and bondage' as the 'death contract' and to discern the precise and various ways in which autonomy and freedom are asserted. This book is enormously impressive in its sweep, its detailed consideration of Wright's corpus, its theoretical ambitions, and the new and compelling paradigms it offers for rethinking slavery, death, and resistance."--Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor at the University of California, Berkeley "This is a path-breaking, imaginative, comprehensive, indeed magisterial, analysis of the ways in which death functions in the construction of black subjectivities in Richard Wright's fiction, autobiographies, and journalism. It both expands our understanding of Wright's achievement and models a way in which the spectre of violence, lynching, and death may be seen to shadow and shape a trajectory of African American cultural production."--Valerie Smith, author of Not Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings, "Abdul JanMohamed reworks the concept of 'social death' to read Richard Wright in comprehensive and provocative ways. At the same time, he offers a new account of slavery, rewriting Hegel and psychoanalysis along the way to rethink 'lordship and bondage' as the 'death contract' and to discern the precise and various ways in which autonomy and freedom are asserted. This book is enormously impressive in its sweep, its detailed consideration of Wright's corpus, its theoretical ambitions, and the new and compelling paradigms it offers for rethinking slavery, death, and resistance."-Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, "[A]n impressive scholarly and theoretical achievement. . . ."The Death-Bound-Subject" should become an important work not only for Richard Wright scholarship in particular, but for African American studies and theorizations of subjectivity in general." --Jeffrey Atteberry," Modern Fiction Studies", "Abdul JanMohamed reworks the concept of 'social death' to read Richard Wright in comprehensive and provocative ways. At the same time, he offers a new account of slavery, rewriting Hegel and psychoanalysis along the way to rethink 'lordship and bondage' as the 'death contract' and to discern the precise and various ways in which autonomy and freedom are asserted. This book is enormously impressive in its sweep, its detailed consideration of Wright's corpus, its theoretical ambitions, and the new and compelling paradigms it offers for rethinking slavery, death, and resistance."--Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor at the University of California, Berkeley
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
813.52
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments ix 1. Introduction: the Culture of Social-Death 1 2. Uncle Tom's Children: Dialectics of Death 45 3. Native Son: Symbolic-Death 77 4. Black Boy: Negation of Death-Bound-Subjectivity 138 5. The Outsider: Patricidal Desires 175 6. Savage Holiday: Matricide and Infanticide 210 7. The Long Dream: Death and the Paternal Function 233 8. Renegotiating the Death Contract 266 Notes 301 Works Cited 317 Index 323
Synopsis
During the 1940s, in response to the charge that his writing was filled with violence, Richard Wright replied that the manner came from the matter, that the "relationship of the American Negro to the American scene was] essentially violent," and that he could deny neither the violence he had witnessed nor his own existence as a product of racial violence. Abdul R. JanMohamed provides extraordinary insight into Wright's position in this first study to explain the fundamental ideological and political functions of the threat of lynching in Wright's work and thought. JanMohamed argues that Wright's oeuvre is a systematic and thorough investigation of what he calls the death-bound-subject, the subject who is formed from infancy onward by the imminent threat of death. He shows that with each successive work, Wright delved further into the question of how living under a constant menace of physical violence affected his protagonists and how they might "free" themselves by overcoming their fear of death and redeploying death as the ground for their struggle. Drawing on psychoanalytic, Marxist, and phenomenological analyses, and on Orlando Patterson's notion of social death, JanMohamed develops comprehensive, insightful, and original close readings of Wright's major publications: his short-story collection Uncle Tom's Children ; his novels Native Son , The Outsider , Savage Holiday , and The Long Dream ; and his autobiography Black Boy/American Hunger . The Death-Bound-Subject is a stunning reevaluation of the work of a major twentieth-century American writer, but it is also much more. In demonstrating how deeply the threat of death is involved in the formation of black subjectivity, JanMohamed develops a methodology for understanding the presence of the death-bound-subject in African American literature and culture from the earliest slave narratives forward., During the 1940s, in response to the charge that his writing was filled with violence, Richard Wright replied that the manner came from the matter, that the "relationship of the American Negro to the American scene [was] essentially violent," and that he could deny neither the violence he had witnessed nor his own existence as a product of racial violence. Abdul R. JanMohamed provides extraordinary insight into Wright's position in this, the first study to explain the fundamental ideological and political functions of the threat of lynching in Wright's work and thought. JanMohamed argues that Wright's oeuvre is a systematic and thorough investigation of what he calls the death-bound-subject, the subject who is formed from infancy onward by the imminent threat of death. He shows that with each successive work, Wright delved deeper into the question of how living under a constant menace of physical violence affected his protagonists and how they might "free" themselves by overcoming their fear of death and redeploying death as the ground for their struggle. Drawing on psychoanalytic, Marxist, and phenomenological analyses, and on Orlando Patterson's notion of social death, JanMohamed develops comprehensive, insightful, and original close readings of Wright's major publications: his short-story collection Uncle Tom's Children; his novels Native Son, The Outsider, Savage Holiday, and The Long Dream; and his autobiography Black Boy/American Hunger. The Death-Bound-Subject is a stunning re-evaluation of the work of a major twentieth-century American writer, but it is also much more. In demonstrating how very deeply the threat of death is involved in the formation of black subjectivity, JanMohamed develops a methodology for understanding the presence of the death-bound-subject in African American literature and culture from the earliest slave narratives forward., During the 1940s, in response to the charge that his writing was filled with violence, Richard Wright replied that the manner came from the matter, that the "relationship of the American Negro to the American scene [was] essentially violent," and that he could deny neither the violence he had witnessed nor his own existence as a product of racial violence. Abdul R. JanMohamed provides extraordinary insight into Wright's position in this first study to explain the fundamental ideological and political functions of the threat of lynching in Wright's work and thought. JanMohamed argues that Wright's oeuvre is a systematic and thorough investigation of what he calls the death-bound-subject, the subject who is formed from infancy onward by the imminent threat of death. He shows that with each successive work, Wright delved further into the question of how living under a constant menace of physical violence affected his protagonists and how they might "free" themselves by overcoming their fear of death and redeploying death as the ground for their struggle. Drawing on psychoanalytic, Marxist, and phenomenological analyses, and on Orlando Patterson's notion of social death, JanMohamed develops comprehensive, insightful, and original close readings of Wright's major publications: his short-story collection Uncle Tom's Children ; his novels Native Son , The Outsider , Savage Holiday , and The Long Dream ; and his autobiography Black Boy/American Hunger . The Death-Bound-Subject is a stunning reevaluation of the work of a major twentieth-century American writer, but it is also much more. In demonstrating how deeply the threat of death is involved in the formation of black subjectivity, JanMohamed develops a methodology for understanding the presence of the death-bound-subject in African American literature and culture from the earliest slave narratives forward., A literary exploration of the prevalence of death--its connection to political oppression and its use as salvation--in Richard Wright's work.
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PS3545
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