TY - BOOK AU - Reid-Pharr,Robert F. TI - Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique T2 - Sexual Cultures SN - 9781479824267 AV - PS153.N5 R46 2016 U1 - 810.9/896073 23 PY - 2016///] CY - New York, NY : PB - New York University Press, KW - African American authors KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - African Americans in literature KW - African Americans KW - Intellectual life KW - 20th century KW - American literature KW - History and criticism KW - Humanism in literature KW - Intellectuals KW - Spain KW - History KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. War Archive --; 2. Lorca’s Deathly Poetics --; 3. Langston’s Adventures in the Dark --; 4. Primitive at the Plantation’s Edge --; 5. Richard Wright in the House of Girls --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Index --; About the Author; restricted access N2 - Enlists the principles of post-humanist critique in order to investigate decades of intimate dialogues between African American and Spanish intellectuals In Archives of Flesh, Robert Reid-Pharr reveals the deep history of intellectual engagement between African America and Spain. Opening a fascinating window onto black and anti-Fascist intellectual life from 1898 through the mid-1950s, Reid-Pharr argues that key institutions of Western Humanism, including American colleges and universities, developed in intimate relation to slavery, colonization, and white supremacy. This retreat to rigidly established philosophical and critical traditions can never fully address-or even fully recognize-the deep-seated hostility to black subjectivity underlying the humanist ideal of a transcendent Manhood. Calling for a specifically anti-white supremacist reexamination of the archives of black subjectivity and resistance, Reid-Pharr enlists the principles of post-humanist critique in order to investigate decades of intimate dialogues between African American and Spanish intellectuals, including Salaria Kea, Federico Garcia Lorca, Nella Larsen, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Chester Himes, Lynn Nottage, and Pablo Picasso. In the process Reid-Pharr takes up the “African American Spanish Archive” in order to resist the anti-corporeal, anti-black, anti-human biases that stand at the heart of Western Humanism UR - https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479824267.001.0001 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479824267 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479824267/original ER -