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Harlem
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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Description for Harlem
Hardback. The African American at the end of the nineteenth century was described by W E B Du Bois as "two souls in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." In the United States today, the hyphen between these two souls-African and American, African-American-is still being negotiated. This book deals with this topic. Illustrator(s): Attie, Alice. Num Pages: 80 pages, 24 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AJ; JFC; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 254.
The African American at the end of the nineteenth century was described by W. E. B. Du Bois as "two souls in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." In the United States today, the hyphen between these two souls-African and American, African-American-is still being negotiated. In "Harlem", Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak engages with twenty-four photographs by Alice Attie as she attempts teleopoiesis, which she describes as a reaching toward the distant other through the empathetic power of the imagination. In the hands of Spivak, teleopoiesis is a kind of identity politics in which one ... Read more
The African American at the end of the nineteenth century was described by W. E. B. Du Bois as "two souls in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." In the United States today, the hyphen between these two souls-African and American, African-American-is still being negotiated. In "Harlem", Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak engages with twenty-four photographs by Alice Attie as she attempts teleopoiesis, which she describes as a reaching toward the distant other through the empathetic power of the imagination. In the hands of Spivak, teleopoiesis is a kind of identity politics in which one ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
Number of Pages
74
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857420848
SKU
V9780857420848
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About Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is a University Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and the author of many books, including The Post-Colonial Critic, Nationalism and the Imagination, and, with Judith Butler, Who Sings the Nation-State?, the latter two also published by Seagull Books. Alice Attie is an artist and a writer. She is the author of Harlem on the Verge. ... Read more
Reviews for Harlem
"Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is a unique voice of courage and conceptual ambition that addresses public life from the perspective of psychic reality, encouraging us to acknowledge the solidarity and the suffering through which we emerge as subjects of freedom." -Homi K. Bhabha "Spivak has probably done more long-term political good in pioneering feminist and postcolonial studies within global academia than ... Read more