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This book focuses on the hyper-scripturalization (or the persistent degradation) of Black flesh, with the phenomenon of masquerade conceptualized as analytical wedge that makes a compelling case for seeing how our ongoing modern realities, with mixed and too often devastating consequences, are constructed.
List of contents
Introduction:
"Everything About Me Was Magic":
The Black-Fleshed and the Making and Management of Modernities
Vincent L. Wimbush
1 Scripturalectics and Masquerading Flesh
Shay Welch
2 Under the Sign of "The African": Masquerade and Identity Formation and Deployment in Equiano...Vassa's Interesting Narrative/Memoir
Carolyn M. Jones Medine
3 Within the Veil and Between the Masks: Reflections on Unveilings and Unmaskings after the Apocalypse
Jacqueline Hidalgo
4 Between the Veil and the Mirror: Josephine Baker and the Scripturalization of Black Modernity in France
Cécile Coquet-Mokoko
5 Whose Flesh? Flesh Tone as Scripturalization in the Art and Practice of Ballet
P. Kimberleigh Jordan
6 "Relentlessly Pursu[ing] All Who Live in Darkness": The African Read as Bondage Through Devotional Missionary Life Writing
Rachel E. C. Beckley
7 Seeking Solace: Finding Hush Harbors for Healing Scripturalization Horrors
Velma E. Love
8 Toni Morrison and the Masquerade of Black Oral Imprint with a Meditation on The Preparation of Soft-Boiled Eggs
Miles P. Grier
9 "There Remains Only Constant Struggle": Scholarship as Telling Stories of Radical Black Subjectivities
Rosetta Ross
10 Olaudah Equiano/Gustavus Vassa and Kossola or Cujo Lewis: History Writing and the Masquerade
Marla Frederick
About the author
Edited by Vincent L. Wimbush - Foreword by Richard Manly Adams, Jr. - Contributions by Cécile Coquet-Mokoko; Marla Frederick; Miles P. Grier; Jacqueline Hidalgo; P. Kimberleigh Jordan; Velma E. Love; Carolyn M. Jones Medine; Rosetta Ross; Rachel E. C. Bec
Summary
This book focuses on the hyper-scripturalization (or the persistent degradation) of Black flesh, with the phenomenon of masquerade conceptualized as analytical wedge that makes a compelling case for seeing how our ongoing modern realities, with mixed and too often devastating consequences, are constructed.
