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“The Blackness We Leave Behind . . .”: Speculative Approaches to Time and Space in Black Critical Theory
Ist Teil von
American quarterly, 2020-06, Vol.72 (2), p.507-517
Ort / Verlag
College Park: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
While historiographical methods were central to the founding and expansion of Black studies programs and thus framed the scope and context of scholarship out of Black studies, recent scholarship has taken to refiguring the relationship between Blackness and Black history as well as offering new insights for the study of Black literature and culture in the twenty-first century. Furthermore, the ways in which elements of Blackness that at one time signaled radical possibility have continued to be co-opted and reincorporated within the logic of global capitalism necessitates an acknowledgment of the need for strategies of becoming and relationality that protect the opacity of Black life and culture while still allowing for Blackness to serve as a critical cite of possibility, expression, creativity. Nyong’o’s Afro-Fabulations and Gillespie’s Film Blackness have a more primary interest in art, literature, and film, and offer new methods for cultural and literary analysis by demonstrating what is generated by their approaches to reading film, literature, and performance. The first chapter of None Like Us moves from that text to an interrogation of the work of the visual artist Mark Bradford and the ways that his work, such as El Anatsui (2004), has been received by critics and commentators who seek to make sense and meaning through a relationship to African history, colonization, and globalization.