13. Warped Conjunctions Jacques Rancière and African American Twoness

From the Critique of Power to the Poetics of Justice

“…2 Perhaps the most influential document of this restlessness in the field so far, Cindy Weinstein's and Christopher Looby's American Literature's Aesthetic Dimensions, signals a turn away from the styles of skeptical reading sometimes known as "the hermeneutics of suspicion," toward a renewed engagement with the varieties of sensuous experience and imaginative play that literature makes possible. Presenting their volume as a friendly rejoinder to a previous generation's demystifying projects, the editors argue that attentiveness to aesthetics does not blind us to history.…”