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Harlem (Hardcover)
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Harlem (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R492
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The African American at the end of the nineteenth century was
described by W. E. B. Du Bois as "two souls in one dark body, whose
dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." In the
United States today, the hyphen between these two souls-African and
American, African-American-is still being negotiated. In "Harlem",
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak engages with twenty-four photographs by
Alice Attie as she attempts teleopoiesis, which she describes as a
reaching toward the distant other through the empathetic power of
the imagination. In the hands of Spivak, teleopoiesis is a kind of
identity politics in which one disrupts identity as a result of
migration or exile. For the last two decades, Spivak notes, Harlem
has been the focus of major economic development. As the old Harlem
disappears into a present that simultaneously demands and rejects a
cultural essence, Spivak dwells in Attie's images, trying to
navigate some middle ground between the rock of social history and
the hard place of a collective culture.
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