Karla FC Holloway, Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature.

Monot, Pierre-Héli

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“…But reproduction and its thorny publics offer bad objects that produce beautiful, incommensurable, difficult questions around the limits of individual choice and "good" political action, and of right legal, historical, and social interpretation around embodied acts from radically different standpoints, and differential and even competing solutions. These are limit cases, spectacular failures and exceptions that fascinate as they expose the instability of intimate lives, the degree to which they are shaped by promises (Owens 2023), by fictions (Holloway 2014), by the law and culture that surround us at that moment, but that may not be always or forever right in their orientation.…”

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Everybody's Maybes: Reproducing Feminism's Bad Objects

Nash,

Pinto

2023

South Atlantic Quarterly

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In this introduction, we reconsider how we can tell the stories of Black feminist thought and institutional feminist study through uncertainty and incommensurability rather than clear reproducibility of good and bad objects. We then consider the speculative place of reproductive history, metaphor, and technology vis-à-vis intersectionality as a foundational object of worry for and in feminist thought. Taking seriously the sustained focus on white women and white feminism as the quintessential bad objects and actors in the present of US feminism, we engage how the reproductive in Black feminism has been both an occluding and elucidating genre to refract Black women as subjects of a “white” field of feminism and the academy at large. We pay particular attention to the social reproduction of race in analyses of gestation, birth, and motherhood and the opportunities these sites represent for disorienting intersectional analysis rather than shoring up its contours. By challenging feminism's critical attachments to self-evidently ethical objects, this introduction, and this issue, offer a way forward in feminist study that imagines uncertainty as a core method and value of feminist inquiry.

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Everybody's Maybes: Reproducing Feminism's Bad Objects

Nash,

Pinto

2023

South Atlantic Quarterly

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“…from the privilege to suppress and protect the body." 24 This radical silencing allows Wells to "speak" through the cultural iconography of her own physical presence, to "say" what "whiteness" at the fair doesn't say and doesn't want said-that is, that its own internal contradictions insist that to be "white" is also to be simultaneously "black," because this form of "whiteness" can only be produced from the black degradation that Wells eschews. This is the moment at which the relation between race and modernism is manifested in the colliding dynamics between racial difference and mainstream cultural understanding made visible, and, therefore, accessible, only within the crucible of modernity.…”

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The City Shining on a Hill, or by a Lake: (Re)Thinking Modern Americanness, (Re)Writing the American Lynch Narrative, and Ida B. Wells

Johnson-Roullier¹

2018

Modernism/modernity

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In her editor's introduction to a recent special issue of Modernism/modernity, "Mediamorphosis: Print Culture and Transatlantic/Transnational Public Sphere(s)," Ann Ardis writes that the issue works to "unsettle a very familiar and interrelated set of 'great divides' that have governed the study of this period." 1 Ardis's list of "great divides," however, leaves one unmentioned: that is, the divide that has traditionally existed between white and black American moderns, or Euro-American authors, especially those belonging to the "Lost Generation," such as Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the authors of the Harlem Renaissance. Although the new modernist studies has increasingly made race an important consideration of modern discourse, it has not adequately addressed the deeper significance of this divide. 2 In this context, rather than simply pursuing the study of chronologically relevant African American texts, it is important to ask what can the critical encounter with race, as a disembodied concept or idea, bring to an understanding of the modern itself? Certainly, although race has been and is now even more a central concern for modernists, the idea of race itself in modern discourse has largely escaped the meticulous investigation it has received in philosophy for a long time. From this alternative vantage point, race and modernity may be seen to possess what might be termed a more than symbiotic relationship, in which the significance of one may be thought almost to be bred from the other. If, as the preeminent scholar of critical modernism / modernity volume twenty five, number one, pp 45-72. © 2018 johns hopkins university press [44.224.250.200] Project MUSE (2024-05-26 03:17 GMT)MODERNISM / modernity 46 race theory David Theo Goldberg has articulated, this relationship may be described more fundamentally in terms of the idea that modernity serves both to camouflage and to provide the ground for radical, racially determined exclusions, it is, then, only within its purview that such exclusions may be discovered and laid bare to further examination for the whole of modern discourse. Goldberg writes:In the case of discriminatory exclusions, it can be strongly concluded that what the moral order fails explicitly to exclude it implicitly authorizes. . . . But in ignoring the social fabric and concrete identities in virtue of which moral judgment and reason are individually effective . . . moral modernity fails to recognize the series of exclusions upon which the state of modernity is constituted. . . . So, though the formal principles of moral modernity condemn and discourage some racist expressions, they fail, and fail necessarily, to condemn and discourage such expressions exhaustively. 3

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Karla FC Holloway, Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature.

Cited by 2 publications

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Everybody's Maybes: Reproducing Feminism's Bad Objects

Everybody's Maybes: Reproducing Feminism's Bad Objects

The City Shining on a Hill, or by a Lake: (Re)Thinking Modern Americanness, (Re)Writing the American Lynch Narrative, and Ida B. Wells

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