Academic Avant-garde : Poetry and the American University (9781421444956) by Andrews Kimberly Quiogue

Author:Andrews, Kimberly Quiogue
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Published: 2023-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

These lines, combined with the seventh (“*Subjectivity: or is there another label?”) form a neat packet of identity studies keywords: agent (and its relation, “agency”), representation, selving, (re)signify, subjectivity. There are more in other lines: “identity,” “Other,” “positionality.” Words such as these often function in academic discourse as assemblages of syllabic building blocks, around which whole vocabularies of analysis are built. Take, for example, a passage that appears on the second page of Fred Moten’s In the Break, on radical Black performance and performativity. Bringing together Saidiya Hartman and Judith Butler’s work on alterity, he writes:

[a] critique of the subject animates Hartman’s work. It bears the trace, therefore, of a movement . . . wherein the call to subjectivity is understood also as a call to subjection and subjugation and appeals for redress or protection . . . are always already embedded in the structure they would escape.55

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