Anarchival Dislocations: Modes of Reading (in) Black Studies

IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Pub Date : 2021-02-26 DOI:10.1353/dia.2020.0000
M. Scully
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Abstract:This essay reviews Stephen Best’s None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life in relation to the ongoing reading debates in literary studies and the methodological practices of black studies. Best’s work, I argue, expands upon the practice of surface reading he and Sharon Marcus introduced to reveal how an attention to surfaces, which I recharacterize as “topological reading,” disrupts misleading seductions of interpretation that remain grounded in allegory. In doing so, Best further reveals the value of surface reading for black studies in particular, which, with its focus on recovery in the archive, is particularly susceptible to “deep” reading practices that aim to construct utopian communitarian notions of black being and belonging. I conclude the review by explicating a brief allusion Best makes to Afropessimism in order to detail the political implications of Best’s insistence on negativity and the “anti-communitarian undertone” he locates in black studies.
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无政府的错位:黑人研究的阅读模式
摘要:本文从文学研究中正在进行的阅读辩论和黑人研究的方法论实践两个方面回顾了斯蒂芬·贝斯特的《非诚勿扰:黑人、归属、审美生活》。我认为,贝斯特的作品扩展了他和莎朗·马库斯引入的表面阅读实践,揭示了对表面的关注,我将其重新定性为“拓扑阅读”,是如何破坏仍然基于寓言的误导性解释诱惑的。在这样做的过程中,贝斯特进一步揭示了表面阅读对黑人研究的价值,尤其是对档案中恢复的关注,特别容易受到旨在构建乌托邦式的黑人存在和归属的社群主义观念的“深层”阅读实践的影响。在结束这篇评论时,我解释了贝斯特对非洲主义的简短提及,以详细说明贝斯特坚持消极性的政治含义,以及他在黑人研究中所处的“反社群主义的潜台词”。
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