The black register
"Drawing upon Africana existential phenomenology, black radical thought, and decoloniality, Sithole offers a new way of thinking about the contemporary relevance of seminal thinkers such as Wynter, Cesaire, Shakur, and Biko"-- "How can thinkers grapple with the question of the human when they have been dehumanized? How can black thinkers confront and make sense of a world structured by antiblackness, a world that militates against the very existence of blacks? These are the questions that gui…
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- Full title :The black register / Tendayi Sithole.
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"Drawing upon Africana existential phenomenology, black radical thought, and decoloniality, Sithole offers a new way of thinking about the contemporary relevance of seminal thinkers such as Wynter, Cesaire, Shakur, and Biko"--
"How can thinkers grapple with the question of the human when they have been dehumanized? How can black thinkers confront and make sense of a world structured by antiblackness, a world that militates against the very existence of blacks? These are the questions that guide Tendayi Sithole's brilliant analyses of the work of Sylvia Wynter, Aimé Césaire, Steve Biko, Assata Shakur, George Jackson, Mabogo P. More, and a critique of Giorgio Agamben. Through his careful interrogation of their writings Sithole shows how the black register represents a uniquely critical perspective from which to confront worlds that are systematically structured to dehumanize. The black register is the ways of thinking, knowing and doing that emerge from existential struggles against antiblackness and that dwell in the lived experience of being black in an antiblack world. The black register is the force of critique that comes from thinkers who are dehumanized, and who in turn question, define, and analyze the reality that they are in, in order to reframe it and unmask the forces that inform subjection." --
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2020.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Polity Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2020.
The Physical Object
- Description:xiii, 288 pages ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781509542062, 150954206X, 9781509542079, 1509542078
- oclc:on1119974387
- LC Classification:CB235
- Dewey Decimal:305.896/073
Table of Contents
Sylvia Wynter: contra imperial man -- Aimé Césaire and the scandal of the human -- Steve Biko as the figure of the outlawed -- The prison slave narrative: Assata Shakur and George Jackson's captive flesh -- For Mabogo P. More: a meditation -- Marikana: the conceptual anxiety of bare life -- On the reconfiguration of the subject.
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