On Cuddling - Loved to Death in the Racial Embrace

"An urgent and elegant book excavating the many meanings of cuddling under racial capitalism ... Lyrical and powerful" Sophie K. Rosa, author of Radical Intimacy

"Will take its place among books by Christina Sharpe, Saidiya Hartman, and Hazel Carby that investigate the violence of intimacy and the intimacy of violence" Jack Halberstam, author of Wild Things

Ranging from the terrifying embrace of the slave ship's hold to the racist encoding of "cuddly" toys, On Cuddling is a unique combination of essay and poetry that contends with the way racial violence is enacted through intimacy.

Informed by Black feminist and queer poetics, Phanuel Antwi focuses his lens on the suffering of Black people at the hands of state violence and racial capitalism. As radical movements grow to advance Black liberation, so too must our ways of understanding how racial capitalism embraces us all. Antwi turns to cuddling, an act we imagine as devoid of violence, and explores it as a tense transfer point of power.

Through archival documents and multiple genres of writing, it becomes clear that the racial violence of the state and economy has always been about the (mis)management of intimacies.

Phanuel Antwi is Canada Research Chair in Black Arts and Epistemologies. He is a curator, activist and associate professor at the University of British Columbia.

Sommario

Be Held

A Scroll 

Scene of Subjection, Choreography of Care 

Racial Embrace

Hold. Womb. Tomb. Spoon.

The Dead Can Love Us Too

Grammars of the Black Atlantic

Bearing

Attraction and Abjection

Continuous Present 

State Cuddling 

Loved to Death 

Theater, Hustling, Embrace 

It's Almost Time 

Fugitive (Solidarity (Betrayals)) 

Acknowledgments 

Notes

Info autore

Phanuel Antwi is Canada Research Chair in Black Arts and Epistemologies. He is an artist, teacher and organiser concerned with race, poetics, movements, intimacy and struggle. He works with text, dance, film and photography to intervene in artistic, academic and public spaces. He is a curator, activist and associate professor at the University of British Columbia.

Riassunto

What can a cuddle tell us about intimacy, violence and racism?

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Phanuel Antwi, Antwi Phanuel
• Editore: Pluto
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9780745346113
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-4611-3
• Pagine: 192
• Dimensioni: 110 mm x 215 mm x 10 mm
• Serie: Vagabonds
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Poetry, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Canadian, Social discrimination & inequality, Feminism & feminist theory, Gay & Lesbian studies, Violence in society, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Feminism and feminist theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies, Black & Asian Studies, Violence and abuse in society, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, Relating to people of the African diasporas / heritage