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Afropessimism
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Blending trenchant philosophy with lyrical memoir, Afropessimism is an unparalleled account of Blackness.
Why does race seem to colour almost every feature of our moral and political universe? Why does a perpetual cycle of slavery in all its political, intellectual, and cultural forms continue to define the Black experience? And why is anti-Black violence such a predominant feature around the world? These are just some of the compelling questions that animate Afropessimism, Frank B. Wilderson III s seminal work on the philosophy of Blackness. Drawing on works of philosophy, literature, film, and critical theory, Wilderson shows that the social construct of slavery, as seen through pervasive anti-Black subjugation and violence, is hardly a relic of the past but the very engine that powers our civilisation. Indeed, Black struggles cannot be conflated with the experiences of any other oppressed or disenfranchised group. And whilst Afropessimism delivers a formidable philosophical account of being Black, it is also interwoven with autobiographial stories that juxtapose Wilderson s seemingly idyllic upbringing in mid-century Minneapolis with the abject racism he later encounters whether in late 1960s Berkeley or in apartheid South Africa. Afropessimism provides no restorative solution to the hatred that abounds; rather, Wilderson believes that acknowledging these historical and social conditions will result in personal enlightenment about the reality of our inherently racialised existence. Radical in conception, remarkably poignant, and with soaring flights of lyrical prose, Afropessimism reverberates with wisdom and painful clarity in the fractured world we inhabit. It positions Wilderson as a paradigmatic thinker and as a twenty-first-century inheritor of many of the African American literary traditions established in centuries past.
Why does race seem to colour almost every feature of our moral and political universe? Why does a perpetual cycle of slavery in all its political, intellectual, and cultural forms continue to define the Black experience? And why is anti-Black violence such a predominant feature around the world? These are just some of the compelling questions that animate Afropessimism, Frank B. Wilderson III s seminal work on the philosophy of Blackness. Drawing on works of philosophy, literature, film, and critical theory, Wilderson shows that the social construct of slavery, as seen through pervasive anti-Black subjugation and violence, is hardly a relic of the past but the very engine that powers our civilisation. Indeed, Black struggles cannot be conflated with the experiences of any other oppressed or disenfranchised group. And whilst Afropessimism delivers a formidable philosophical account of being Black, it is also interwoven with autobiographial stories that juxtapose Wilderson s seemingly idyllic upbringing in mid-century Minneapolis with the abject racism he later encounters whether in late 1960s Berkeley or in apartheid South Africa. Afropessimism provides no restorative solution to the hatred that abounds; rather, Wilderson believes that acknowledging these historical and social conditions will result in personal enlightenment about the reality of our inherently racialised existence. Radical in conception, remarkably poignant, and with soaring flights of lyrical prose, Afropessimism reverberates with wisdom and painful clarity in the fractured world we inhabit. It positions Wilderson as a paradigmatic thinker and as a twenty-first-century inheritor of many of the African American literary traditions established in centuries past.
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Data wydania: 29.10.2021
Liczba stron: 368
Wymiary: 14.0x21.1
Typ okładki:miękka okładka
Wydawca: WW Norton & Co
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Tytuł:Afropessimism
EAN: 9781324090519
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