ISBN:
9781479810932
,
9781479810925
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (261 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.896/073
Keywords:
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American
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African Americans
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Age Social aspects
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Blacks
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Human body Social aspects
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Racism
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Altern
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Körper
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Soziale Situation
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Aussehen
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Schwarze
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USA
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USA
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Schwarze
;
Körper
;
Aussehen
;
Altern
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Soziale Situation
Abstract:
A view of transatlantic slavery's afterlife and modern Blackness through the lens of age. Although more than fifty years apart, the murders of Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin share a commonality: Black children are not seen as children. Time and time again, excuses for police brutality and aggression-particularly against Black children- concern the victim "appearing" as a threat. But why and how is the perceived "appearance" of Black persons so completely separated from common perceptions of age and time? Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life posits age, life stages, and lifespans as a central lens through which to view Blackness, particularly with regard to the history of transatlantic slavery. Focusing on Black literary culture of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Habiba Ibrahim examines how the history of transatlantic slavery and the constitution of modern Blackness has been reimagined through the embodiment of age. She argues that Black age-through nearly four centuries of subjugation- has become contingent, malleable, and suited for the needs of enslavement. As a result, rather than the number of years lived or a developmental life stage, Black age came to signify exchange value, historical under-development, timelessness, and other fantasies borne out of Black exclusion from the human.Ibrahim asks: What constitutes a normative timeline of maturation for Black girls when "all the women"-all the canonically feminized adults-"are white"? How does a "slave" become a "man" when adulthood is foreclosed to Black subjects of any gender? Black Age tracks the struggle between the abuses of Black exclusion from Western humanism and the reclamation of non-normative Black life, arguing that, if some of us are brave, it is because we dare to live lives considered incomprehensible within a schema of "human time.
DOI:
10.18574/nyu/9781479810932
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