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Masquerade: Scripturalizing Modernities through Black Flesh

Masquerade: Scripturalizing Modernities through Black Flesh

Coquet-Mokoko, Cécile
Wimbush, Vincent L.
Adams, Richard Manly, Jr.

Hardcover

Series: Scripturalization: Discourse, Formation, Power

Literary CriticismReligion General General Sociology

ISBN10: 1978715129
ISBN13: 9781978715127
Publisher: Fortress Academic
Published: Jun 14 2023
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Continuing his project of critical analysis of the scriptural formation of culture, Vincent L. Wimbush has gathered in this book essays by scholars of various backgrounds and orientations who focus in different registers on the theme of masquerade as the play-element in modern culture. Masquerade functions as a window onto the mimetic performances, dynamics, arrangements, psycho-logics, and politics (scripturalizing) by which the made-up becomes fixed or one among our realities (scripturalization). Modern-world racialization (and its attendant explosions into racialisms and racisms) as the hyper-scripturalization of difference in human flesh (registered in psychosocial relations as a type of scripture) is argued in this book to be one of the most consequential examples and reflections of masquerade and thereby one of the primary impetuses behind, and determinants of, the shape of the realities of modernities. The open window onto these realities is facilitated by touchstone references to--not exhaustive treatment of--a now famous eighteenth-century life story, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (1789). This story, told by a complexly positioned Black-fleshed self-acknowledged ex-slave/stranger, is itself a mask-ing that throws light on the predominantly white Anglophone world as masking (as scriptural formation). Equiano/Vassa's story as masking helps makes a compelling case for analyzing through Black flesh the ongoing shaping of the modern and the perduring mixed if not also devastating consequences.

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