In The Break: The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical TraditionInvestigates the connections between jazz, sexual identity, and radical black politics Stylistically brilliant and challenging, much like the music he writes about, Moten’s wide-ranging discussion embraces a variety of disciplines—semiotics, deconstruction, genre theory, social history, and psychoanalysis—to understand the politicized sexuality, particularly homoeroticism, underpinning black radicalism. In the Break is the inaugural volume in Moten’s ambitious intellectual project-to establish an aesthetic genealogy of the black radical tradition |
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... originary performance of the violent subjection of the slave's body . Indeed , Hartman's considerable , formida- ble , and rare brilliance is present in the space she leaves for the ongoing ( re ) production of that performance in all ...
... originary repression . It's the ongoing repression of the primal scene of subjection that one wants to guard against and linger in . Douglass passes on a repression that Hartman's critical suppression extends . Such transfer demands ...
... originary unity ( given the necessary logical impossibility of the logically necessary return ) nor justify an originary difference ( if every drive — including eros — must instantiate a return to an originary state ) . What justifies ...
... originary unity in its coupling with the law of the necessary return to origin of the drives . Freud must picture an initial state of eros and that state can tolerate nothing prior to it even though it is a law of the drives that they ...
... originary , and is made on a railroad both aleatory and under- ground . Finally , the destination is also subject to cut and augmentation . This requires a trip through Paris . This is when Harlem is no longer a point of arrival . This ...
Contents
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Praying with Eric | 63 |
Tragedy Elegy | 85 |
The Dark Lady and the Sexual Cut | 102 |
German Inversion | 122 |
Round the Five Spot | 149 |
Baldwins Baraka His Mirror Stage the Sound of His Gaze | 171 |
Black Monin in the Sound of the Photograph | 192 |
Tonality of Totality | 211 |
Adrian Pipers Theatricality | 233 |
Notes | 255 |
Index | 307 |