Futures of Enlightenment Poetry by Dustin Stewart (review)

IF 0.4 3区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI:10.1353/ecs.2023.a900666
Misty G. Anderson
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As an interdisciplinary historian of gender and the Black Atlantic, Johnson frames her extensive archival research with original theoretical insights that will be of interest to scholars of the eighteenth century across disciplines. For example, the concept of “null value” (134) focuses a fresh perspective from the digital humanities on the enduring problem of archival silences so meaningfully elaborated by scholars such as Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Saidiya Hartman, and Marisa Fuentes. Incessant, yet incomplete, efforts at colonial quantification too often leave black women’s humanity frustratingly obscured in the documentary record. Rather than “pausing at empirical silence or accepting it at face value” (134), Johnson formulates a different approach that affirms black life even in the moment of its erasure: “Identifying archival silences as null values surfaces slaveowners and officials as responsible for missing and unacknowledged black life in the archive, but it resists equating the missing or inapplicable information with black death” (135). A lifeaffirming method also becomes central to the way Johnson draws on black queer and sexuality studies to develop a notion of black femme freedom. For Johnson, black femme freedom names a space of freedom that exceeds the terms of legal manumission and encapsulates the ways that black women continually refused commodification “by stepping into the fray on each other’s behalf” (173). It is a concept that honors “the promiscuous and polymorphic arrangements of femininity and feminine desire” that black women created (173).
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作为一名跨学科的性别和黑大西洋历史学家,约翰逊将她广泛的档案研究与原创性的理论见解结合起来,这将使18世纪跨学科的学者感兴趣。例如,“零值”的概念(134)将数字人文学科的新视角聚焦于档案沉默这一持久问题,米歇尔-罗尔夫·特鲁洛特、赛迪亚·哈特曼和玛丽莎·富恩特斯等学者对这一问题进行了有意义的阐述。对殖民时期量化的持续而不完整的努力,往往让黑人女性的人性在文献记录中黯然失色,令人沮丧。约翰逊没有“停留在经验主义的沉默上,或者从表面上接受它”(134),而是提出了一种不同的方法,即使在黑人生活被抹去的那一刻,也肯定了黑人的生活:“将档案中的沉默视为无效价值,使奴隶主和官员对档案中失踪和未被承认的黑人生活负有责任,但它拒绝将失踪或不适用的信息等同于黑死病”(135)。生命肯定的方法也成为约翰逊利用黑人酷儿和性研究来发展黑人女性自由概念的核心方法。对约翰逊来说,黑人女性自由指的是一种超越法律释放范围的自由空间,它概括了黑人女性“为彼此的利益而参与斗争”,不断拒绝商品化的方式(173)。这是一个尊重黑人女性创造的“女性气质和女性欲望的混杂和多态安排”的概念(173)。
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期刊介绍: As the official publication of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), Eighteenth-Century Studies is committed to publishing the best of current writing on all aspects of eighteenth-century culture. The journal selects essays that employ different modes of analysis and disciplinary discourses to explore how recent historiographical, critical, and theoretical ideas have engaged scholars concerned with the eighteenth century.
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