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About this book
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 cultureāhaving to do with social practices and their psycho-politics as regimes of knowledge, discourse, formation, and power relationsāhis 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 fleshāleading to racialization and racism, especially anti-Black racismāto the scriptural as shorthand for discourse and relations of power that makes this work compelling.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedeicaton
- Epigraph
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Cursus FugaeāFrenzied Soundings and Threatening Gestures; or, the Making of an Undisciplined/Black-Fleshed Maroon
- Part I: CONTEMPTUS MUNDI; OR, HÅS MÄ: INITIATION INTO A DISCURSIVEFORMATION
- Part II: āHITTING A LICK WITH A CROOKED STICKā; OR, READING DARKNESS, READING SCRIPTURES: OBLIQUE CRITIQUE OF THE DISCURSIVE FORMATION
- Part III: SIGNIFYING (ON) SCRIPTURES; OR, READING TEXTURES, GESTURES, POWER: EFFORTS AT RE-ORIENTATION AND RE-FORMATION WITHIN THE VEIL OF FORMATION
- Part IV: āIāM BUILDINā ME A HOME,ā OR, ā[I] HAD TO RUNā: EXPANSIVE AND SAFE SPACE FOR āCOMPOSINGā THE HUMAN
- Afterword: Mr. George FloydāAmerican Scripture
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author