The Garden Realm of Pale Ratiocinations
Toward the Abolition of a Dark Fantastic Theological Imaginary of Human Being
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7093872 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nathan D Wood-House (0000-0001-5003-2244, College of the Holy Cross, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 278-295 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1462-317X • E-ISSN: 1743-1719 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1462317x.2023.2289265 |
| OpenAlex | W4389227819 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 29 |
Anti-Blackness adumbrates rationality and reaches into phobic realms, what Frantz Fanon called the "paralogical." Ebony Elizabeth Thomas's The Dark Fantastic links the dark fantastic imagination and the Dark Other of speculative fiction to their cultural iterations and augments the paralogicality of anti-Blackness by accounting for the narrative roles of hesitation and belief. This paper argues that it is further necessary to assert the narrative significance of nineteenth century Christian, pre-Adamite and/or Serpent Seed theological anthropologies for the production of what one might call a dark fantastic theological imaginary of human being. The paper argues, further, far from being a bygone heresy, the pre-Adamite mythos lives on in the "thin blue line" anthropology of contemporary policing. The paper therefore looks ultimately for abolitionist possibilities to interrupt this imaginary, which it sees in the theological counternarrative of Black being in Matt Ruff's novel Lovecraft Country and its TV adaptation by Misha Green
Aesthetics · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Realm · The Imaginary · Theology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
What Fanon Said
Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism
Horton and Wohl Revisited
Stand Your Ground
Playing in the Dark
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
Toward a Womanist Ethic of Incarnation
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
The Parasocial Contact Hypothesis
James Henry Hammond and the Old South
The New Jim Crow
Adam's Ancestors
The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
On the Postcolony
Whither Fanon
Introducción a la literatura fantástica
Inventions of Existence
Wonders and the order of nature
Someone's in the Garden with Eve
Imagining Identity in New Spain
Necropolitics
The Imperial Origins of American Policing
On the Coloniality of Being
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |