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  1. Mythe littéraire et nouveau réalisme
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Éditions universitaires européennes, Saarbrücken

  2. LA GRANDE BELLEZZA: Adventures in transindividuality
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg ; Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: E-Journal
    Format: Online
    ISSN: 2213-0217
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    Parent title: In: del Río, Elena (2017): LA GRANDE BELLEZZA: Adventures in transindividuality. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies 6 (2), 19–36. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/3398.
    Other subjects: Ästhetik; Kristallisierung; Individualität; Filmanalyse; aesthetics; crystallisation; disparation; metastability; Modulation; preindividual; profanation; relational ontology; transindividual; Individuation
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  3. Richard Wright’s Anagrammatical Allegory of Liturgical Reading, or Inhabiting the Black Messianic in “The Man Who Lived Underground”
    Published: 2021

    This essay reads Richard Wright’s speculative novella, “The Man Who Lived Underground” (1940/1996), as an anagrammatical allegory of liturgical reading. By anagrammatical, I invoke Christina Sharpe’s understanding of how Blackness singularly “exists... more

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    This essay reads Richard Wright’s speculative novella, “The Man Who Lived Underground” (1940/1996), as an anagrammatical allegory of liturgical reading. By anagrammatical, I invoke Christina Sharpe’s understanding of how Blackness singularly “exists as an index of violability and also potentiality” in its foreclosure from the World’s grammar of anti-Blackness. With allegory (of reading), I draw attention to both (1) how Wright recasts Plato’s allegory of the cave in modern America and, following Paul de Man, (2) how Wright’s text is an allegory of un/readability. Finally, with liturgy, I draw on Giorgio Agamben’s understanding of mystery as a performance that (re-)enacts the text. This leads me to theorize that Wright’s anagrammatical allegory of liturgical reading brings the reader into speculative attunement to the Black messianic, which is a radical mode of fidelity to the Black’s singular positionality in aspiring to the un-veiling [apo-kalyptein] of the katechontic anti-Black World – toward gratuitous messianic freedom.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Article (journal)
    Format: Online
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Political theology; Abingdon : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 1999; 22(2021), 4, Seite 279-295; Online-Ressource

    Subjects: Paul; Agamben; Afropessimism; profanation; reading; apocalyptic; messianic; liturgy; allegory; anagrammatical; Blackness; Richard Wright