- Description
- xi, 394 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "In Of Effacement, David Marriott endeavors to demolish established opinion about what blackness is and reorient our understanding of what it is not in art, philosophy, autobiography, literary theory, political theory, and psychoanalysis. With the critical rigor and polemical bravura which he displayed in Whither Fanon? Marriott here considers the relationships between language, judgement and effacement, and shows how effacement has become the dominant force in anti-blackness. Both skeptically and emphatically, Marriott presents a series of radical philosophical engagements with Fanon's "is not" (n'est pas) and its "black" political truth. How does one speak - let alone represent - that which is without existence? Is blackness n'est pas because it has yet to be thought as blackness? And if so, when Fanon writes of blackness, that it is n'est pas (is not), where should one look to make sense of this n'est pas? In Of Effacement, Marriott anchors these questions by addressing the most fundamental perennial questions concerning the nature of freedom, resistance, mastery, life and liberation, via a series of analyses of such key figures as Huey Newton, Nietzsche, Malcolm X, Edward Said, Georges Bataille, Stuart Hall, and Lacan. He thus develops the basis for a reading of blackness by recasting its effacement as an identity, while insisting on it as a fundamental question for philosophy"--
- Series Statement
- Inventions: black philosophy, politics, aesthetics
- Uniform Title
- Inventions (Series)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- N'est pas -- Nigra philologica -- Nègre, figura -- Ontology and lalangue -- Autobiography as effacement -- Crystallization -- On revolutionary suicide -- The real and the apparent -- Corpus exanime.
- ISBN
- 9781503628786
- 1503628787
- 9781503637252
- 1503637255
- 9781503637269 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023018087
- OCLC
- YBP 2023018087
- Author
Marriott, D. S., author.
- Title
Of effacement : blackness and non-being / David Marriott.
- Publisher
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2024.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Series
Inventions: black philosophy, politics, aesthetics
Inventions (Series)
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
Online version: Marriott, D. S. Of effacement. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2023 9781503637269 (DLC) 2023018088