The Need for a Black Planetarity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8910137 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Purcell (0009-0005-1526-8338, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 244-252 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Literature Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4132 • E-ISSN: 1528-4212 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/complitstudies.60.2.0244 |
| OpenAlex | W4383420663 |
| Language | EN |
“The Need for a Black Planetarity” connects Gayatri Spivak’s revitalization of the project of comparative literature in Death of a Discipline to her analysis of virtual capitalism and urbanity across a range of her works, including “Megacity” and Harlem. This constellation of works, the author argues, illuminates untrodden thematic connections within Spivak’s writing that reveal the importance of her figuration of “planetarity” in Death of a Discipline to our own contemporary struggles within and beyond the academy that draws us further away from the reading and teaching of the “textual” as a place of alterity
Aesthetics · Alterity · Art · Capitalism · Epistemology · Literature · Political science · Politics · Problematization · Reading (process · Sensibility · Sociology · Urbanity · Cultural Studies and Postmodernism · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Spatial and Cultural Studies · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
| Highly cited | No |
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