Description
Wilson models a practice of reading that honors the disruptive possibilities offered by an ever-present awareness of that which lies, irretrievable, beyond the horizon of vanishing itself. In doing so, he engages with historical accounts detailing maroon activities in early New Spain, contemporary coverage of the push to make legible Afro-Mexican identities, the electronic archives of the Obama presidency, and the work of Carlos de SigUEenza y GOngora, Octavio Paz, Ivan Van Sertima, Miguel Covarrubias, Steven Spielberg, and Colson Whitehead, among others.
About the Author
Ricardo A. Wilson II is an assistant professor in the Department of English and affiliate faculty in the Program in Comparative Literature at Williams College.
Reviews
"With The Nigrescent Beyond: Mexico, the United States, and the Psychic Vanishing of Blackness we are at once given a subtle new radical voice in thought and a sustained and necessary new exposure to the emplacement of matters of 'Blackness' across the hemisphere, by way of a wholly other experience of all that is Mexico." -Nahum Dimitri Chandler, author of Toward an African Future: Of the Limit of World
Book Information
ISBN 9780810142046
Author Ricardo A. Wilson
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint Northwestern University Press
Publisher Northwestern University Press
Weight(grams) 240g