writers on race in the life of the mind
Edición de la obra The racial imaginary
| Autor | Claudia Rankine, Beth Loffreda, Max King Cap |
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| Editorial | Fence Books |
| Fecha de publicación | 2015 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 285 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781934200797 |
| ISBN-10 | 1934200794 |
| OCLC | 899155842 |
| LCCN | 2015930807 |
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R211r |
"To think of creativity in terms of transcendence is itself specific and partial--a lovely dream perhaps, but an inhuman one. "It is not only white writers who make a prize of transcendence, of course. Many writers of all backgrounds see the imagination as a historical, as a generative place where race doesn't and shouldn't enter, a place of bodies that transcend the legislative, the economic--in other words, transcend the stuff that doesn't lend itself much poetry. In this view the imagination is postracial, a posthistorical and postpolitical utopia. . . . To bring up race for these writers is to inch close to the anxious space of affirmative action, the scarring qualifieds. "So everyone is here."--Claudia Rankine and Beth Loffreda, from the introduction In 2011, a poem published in a national magazine by a popular white male poet made use of a black female body. A conversation ensued, and ended. Claudia Rankine subsequently created Open Letter, a web forum for writers to relate the effects and affects of racial difference and to explore art's failure, thus far, to adequately imagine"--Provided by publisher.