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Black Flesh Matters: Essays on Runagate Interpretation

By Vincent L. Wimbush

Book information

Publisher
Fortress Academic
Year
2022
ISBN
9781978712690, 9781978712706, 1978712693
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7299066 bytes)
Pages
420\421
Time added
2023-12-08 16:22:12

Description

These essays, written over more than thirty years of Vincent L. Wimbush’s career as a scholar, provide a response to the nearly universal, persistent, and sedimented modern-world hyper-signification of Black flesh, always needing to be framed, humiliated, policed, and dirtied. Because Wimbush is a scholar of religion as culture—having to do with social practices and their psycho-politics as regimes of knowledge, discourse, formation, and power relations—his ex-centric transdisciplinary interest in scriptures has been viewed, in some circles, as controversial. Yet it is Wimbush’s linkage of the modern hyper-signification of Black flesh—leading to racialization and racism, especially anti-Black racism—to the scriptural as shorthand for discourse and relations of power that makes this work compelling.

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