Pitch Black, Black Pitch
Theorizing African American Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4774926 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marquis Bey (Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 105-167 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | CR The New Centennial Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-687X • E-ISSN: 1539-6630 |
| Publisher | Michigan State University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.14321/crnewcentrevi.18.1.0105 |
| OpenAlex | W2803539796 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 33 |
These elements of social modality come to bear on the historical situation of the text, the writer, and various constituent reader-groups that "choose" the text, but I mean historical situatedness primarily as the enunciative conditions that surround a particular act of speaking/writing and the textual densities ("writings" that precede) flowing back against it. In that regard, African American fictional texts declare, by definition, a subversive move; not empowered to speak in the historical instance by any act of morality, legislation, or rule of cultural precedence; by tradition, the subject of speaking in others, but not a speaking subject itself, the "largest poet" (who has far less to do with particular writers' identities than I personally like) of writings by black writers inscribes a fugitive condition. She or he is history's "runaway" person, the missing commodity of the gross national product, whose whereabouts were once top secret (from about a.d. 1619, Jamestown, the colonial South, to the present )
American and British Literature Analysis · History · Race, History, and American Society
Scenes of subjection
Cultural Capital
No Tea, No Shade
How it Feels to Be Colored Me
Spill
X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought
The Erotic Life of Racism
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel
What Was African American Literature
Fictions Of Feminist Ethnography
The Racial Contract
The Position of the Unthought
The Ceremony Must be Found
The New Jim Crow
When We Enter
X-The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought
Awakening to the World
What Was African American Literature
Blackness and Nothingness (Mysticism in the Flesh)
Writing American
Words Don't Go There
Capital Rules Everything around Me
Scenes of Speculation
Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
The Case of Blackness
African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |