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None Like Us - Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life (Paperback)
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None Like Us - Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life (Paperback)
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It passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an
explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In
None Like Us Stephen Best reappraises what he calls "melancholy
historicism"-a kind of crime scene investigation in which the
forensic imagination is directed toward the recovery of a "we" at
the point of "our" violent origin. Best argues that there is and
can be no "we" following from such a time and place, that black
identity is constituted in and through negation, taking inspiration
from David Walker's prayer that "none like us may ever live again
until time shall be no more." Best draws out the connections
between a sense of impossible black sociality and strains of
negativity that have operated under the sign of queer. In None Like
Us the art of El Anatsui and Mark Bradford, the literature of Toni
Morrison and Gwendolyn Brooks, even rumors in the archive, evidence
an apocalyptic aesthetics, or self-eclipse, which opens the
circuits between past and present and thus charts a queer future
for black study.
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