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Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction - Prof Nicole Simek

Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction

Race, Kinship, and the Passion for Ontology
Buch | Softcover
224 Seiten
2025
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-7768-6 (ISBN)
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Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction focuses on the resurgence of biological racism in 21st-century public discourse, the ontological and material turns in the academy that have occurred over the same time period, and how Afro-diasporic fiction has responded to both with alternative visions of bloodlines, kinship, and community.

In thinking through conceptions of race, ethnicity, and materiality at work within both humanities research and popular culture, Nicole Simek asks how the figure of alchemy – that semi-scientific, semi-mystical search for gold and the elixir of long life – can help scholars address the epistemological and affective investments in blood, bloodlines, and genetics marking both academic and mainstream discourses. To answer this question, Simek examines neo-plantation and Afrofuturist narratives, Afropessimist interventions, museums and public memory projects, and direct-to-consumer genetic testing services in the French Caribbean and the United States. This comparative approach to cultural production helps pinpoint and better understand the intersections and divergences between scholarship trends and troubling features of a broader Zeitgeist.

Nicole Simek is Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature at Whitman College, USA. She is co-editor of Francophone Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2020), author of two books, including Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean: Literature and Theory in Public Life (2016), and translator of Maryse Condé's The Belle Créole (2020)

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Race and the Passion for the Real
1. Genealogies That Matter
2. Amnesiac Meditations, or Kinship in the Breach
3. Future Ancestors
4. Fugitive Belongings
Conclusion: Alchemy's Reason

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik / Ontologie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-5013-7768-X / 150137768X
ISBN-13 978-1-5013-7768-6 / 9781501377686
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