The Argument of “Afropessimism”
July 18, 2020 5:44 PM Subscribe
posted by Ahmad Khani at 5:54 PM on July 18, 2020 [3 favorites]
This is timely for me--I've been participating in a feminist theory reading group and heard about Afropessimism for the first time last week.
posted by hoyland at 7:59 AM on July 19, 2020
posted by hoyland at 7:59 AM on July 19, 2020
Wilderson contends that “the narrative arc of the slave who is Black (unlike Orlando Patterson’s generic Slave, who may be of any race) is not an arc at all, but a flat line.”For me, that sentence resonates with the end of this essay(slyt)
If we can't relate to people who have little control over their lives, how could we ever tell stories about capitalism?posted by otherchaz at 10:03 AM on July 19, 2020 [3 favorites]
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