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Continuing his project of critical analysis of the scriptural formation of culture, Vincent L. Wimbush has gathered in this book essays by scholars of various backgrounds and orientations who focus in different registers on the theme of masquerade as the "play-element" in modern culture. Masquerade functions as a window onto the mimetic performances, dynamics, arrangements, psycho-logics, and politics ("scripturalizing") by which the "made-up" becomes fixed or one among our realities (scripturalization). Modern-world racialization (and its attendant explosions into racialisms and racisms) as the hyper-scripturalization of difference in human flesh (registered in psychosocial relations as a type of "scripture") is argued in this book to be one of the most consequential examples and reflections of masquerade and thereby one of the primary impetuses behind, and determinants of, the shape of the realities of modernities. The open window onto these realities is facilitated by touchstone references to—not exhaustive treatment of—a now famous eighteenth-century life story, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (1789). This story, told by a complexly positioned Black-fleshed self-acknowledged ex-slave/"stranger," is itself a "mask-ing" that throws light on the predominantly white Anglophone world as masking (as scriptural formation). Equiano/Vassa's story as masking helps makes a compelling case for analyzing through Black flesh the ongoing shaping of the modern and the perduring mixed if not also devastating consequences.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: “Everything about Me Was Magic”The Black-Fleshed and the Making and Management of Modernities
- Chapter 1: Scripturalectics and Masquerading Flesh
- Chapter 2: Under the Sign of “The African”: Masquerade and Identity Formation and Deployment in Equiano . . . Vassa’s Interesting Narrative/Memoir
- Chapter 3: Within the Veil and Between the Masks: Reflections on Unveilings and Unmaskings after the Apocalypse
- Chapter 4: Between the Veil and the Mirror: Josephine Baker and the Scripturalization of Black Modernity in France
- Chapter 5: Whose Flesh?: Flesh Tone as Scripturalization in the Art and Practice of Ballet
- Chapter 6: “Relentlessly Pursu[ing] All Who Live in Darkness”: The African Read as Bondage through Devotional Missionary Life Writing
- Chapter 7: Seeking Solace: Finding Hush Harbors for Healing Scripturalization Horrors
- Chapter 8: Toni Morrison and the Masquerade of Black Oral Imprint with a Meditation on the Preparation of Soft-Boiled Eggs
- Chapter 9: “There Remains Only Constant Struggle”: Scholarship as Stories of Radical Black Subjectivities
- Chapter 10: Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa and Oluale Kossola or Cudjo Lewis: History Writing and the Masquerade
- About the Editor and Contributors