Black Flesh Matters
Essays on Runagate Interpretation
Black Flesh Matters
Essays on Runagate Interpretation
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN: 9781978712713
Number of Pages: 420
Published: 31/01/2024
Width: 15.1 cm
Height: 22.9 cm
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 culture—having to do with social practices and their psycho-politics as regimes of knowledge, discourse, formation, and power relations—his 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 flesh—leading to racialization and racism, especially anti-Black racism—to the scriptural as shorthand for discourse and relations of power that makes this work compelling.
Introduction: Cursus Fugae: Frenzied Soundings and Threatening Gestures; or, the Making of an Undisciplined/Black-Fleshed Maroon
Part I. Contemptus Mundi; or, Hos Me: Initiation into a Discursive Formation
1. Contemptus Mundi: Social Power of an Ancient Rhetorics and Worldview (1992)
2. Ascetic Behavior and Color-ful Language: Stories About Ethiopian Moses (1992)
3. Not of This World: Early Christianities as Rhetorical and Social Formation (1996)
4. Like a Ship that’s Tossed and Driven: The Ascetics of Social Formation (2001)
5. Contemptus Mundi: The Dialectics of Modern Formation
Part II. “Hitting a Lick With a Crooked Stick”; Or, Reading Darkness, Reading Scriptures: Oblique Critique of the Discursive Formation
6. Reading Darkness, Reading Scriptures: African Americans and the Bible—A Disturbing Conjunction and a Defiant Question (2000)
7. “Naturally Veiled and Half Articulate”: Scriptures, Modernity, and the Formation of African America (2008)
8. “No modern Joshua”: Nationalization, Scr
