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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: David LloydPublisher: Fordham University Press Imprint: Fordham University Press ISBN: 9780823282388ISBN 10: 0823282384 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 13 November 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface vii Introduction: Under Representation 1 1. The Aesthetic Regime of Representation 19 2. The Pathological Sublime: Pleasure and Pain in the Racial Regime 44 3. Race under Representation 69 4. Representation’s Coup 95 5. The Aesthetic Taboo: Aura, Magic, and the Primitive 124 Notes 161 Bibliography 205 Index 221ReviewsIf there is any hope for the human, and if the idea of the human is of any use to the enactment of that hope, then the aesthetic claims and categories through which the human and its subjects are exalted and degraded must be placed under the most violent and most loving scrutiny. Under Representation exemplifies such scrutiny. The rigorous care with which David Lloyd examines and challenges the entanglement of race, representation and the aesthetic is irresistible and indispensable. Under Representation is a major, and singular, achievement. --Fred Moten, New York University If there is any hope for the human, and if the idea of the human is of any use to the enactment of that hope, then the aesthetic claims and categories through which the human and its subjects are exalted and degraded must be placed under the most violent and most loving scrutiny. Under Representation exemplifies such scrutiny. The rigorous care with which David Lloyd examines and challenges the entanglement of race, representation, and the aesthetic is irresistible and indispensable. Under Representation is a major, and singular, achievement.--Fred Moten, New York University If there is any hope for the human, and if the idea of the human is of any use to the enactment of that hope, then the aesthetic claims and categories through which the human and its subjects are exalted and degraded must be placed under the most violent and most loving scrutiny. Under Representation exemplifies such scrutiny. The rigorous care with which David Lloyd examines and challenges the entanglement of race, representation and the aesthetic is irresistible and indispensable. Under Representation is a major, and singular, achievement. -- Fred Moten, New York University Author InformationDavid Lloyd is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author, most recently, of Beckett’s Thing: Painting and Theatre. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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