“Broken Bits of Color in the Dirt”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20106312 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jesse W Schwartz (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 12-37 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English Language Notes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8282 • E-ISSN: 2573-3575 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00138282-8814961 |
| OpenAlex | W3149290569 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 40 |
This essay examines the numerous critical claims of “timeliness” around the recently recovered novel Romance in Marseille as well as Claude McKay’s own numerous commitments and challenges as they emerge therein: the multiple and enduring afterlives of slavery, the Bolshevik Revolution and the burgeoning of its stiflingly bureaucratic Thermidor under Stalin, the various theoretical and programmatic complications that issues of race and gender posed for international socialism alongside the promises and disappointments of emancipatory politics writ large. However, in attempting to adjudicate such problematics of difference, McKay also provides the outlines of a dialectical “Black Intersectional International,” thereby gesturing toward a “commonism” of the quayside
Adjudication · Aesthetics · Art · Bureaucracy · Dialectic · Dirt · Epistemology · Eurocentrism · Literature · Political science · Politics · Romance · Sociology · Writ · Engineering · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Race, History, and American Society
Narrative Discourse
W.E.B. Du Bois
Scenes of subjection
Freedom dreams
In the Cause of Freedom
Extravagant Abjection
Black Marxism, Revised and Updated Third Edition
Ghostly Matters
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex
Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha
Black Internationalist Feminism
Discourse on Colonialism
Saltwater Slavery
Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain
The Paper Bag Principle
A thousand plateaus
Animacies
Sojourning for Freedom
Left of Karl Marx
New Negro, Old Left
The French Slave Trade
Letter to Maurice Thorez
Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
Becoming Human
Women, Race and Class
Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom
Geniuses of resistance
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |