"To Save My Own Life": Antebellum Autobiography and the Figures for Black Ontology
"To Save My Own Life": Antebellum Autobiography and the Figures for Black Ontology
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211152734
- ISBN
- 9798384449041
- DDC
- 305
- 저자명
- Robinson, Jared.
- 서명/저자
- To Save My Own Life: Antebellum Autobiography and the Figures for Black Ontology
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of California, Berkeley, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 142 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-04, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Best, Stephen.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약My dissertation "TO SAVE MY OWN LIFE: Antebellum Autobiography and the Figures for Black Ontology", directed by Stephen Best, revisits the autobiographical narrations of several canonical (formally enslaved) writers to discover in them the origins of the contemporary methods for black study-emblematized by the archival poetics of M. NourbeSe Phillip's Zong! and the auto-theoretical polemics of Frank Wilderson III's Afro-Pessimism. To articulate the relationship between these two poles of contemporary black critical thought- one that voices drowned slaves through a new vocabulary assembled from court documents, the other which polemicizes against coalition as it draws the reader closer and closer to its subject's position- my project revisits their dual origin in both the production and reception of three slave narratives. These narratives and texts, by Olaudah Equiano, Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Jacobs, make case studies for body chapters that address what lives on the other side of the constraints of a (white, abolitionist) literary market turned field of academic study. Alongside the more direct reference within each text to the author's awareness of their narrative's significance to their contemporary struggle for freedom, the subsequent debates surrounding Equiano's natality, Wheatley's proposing of initial figural position for black speakers, and crafting of a historical fiction, and the third Jacobs's self-metaphorization and references to the archives of enslavement, make the literary (historical) evidence in negative to the positive, radical, and ultimately ontological potentials of struggling to articulate life through an oppressive and abstract medium: the autobiography and, more broadly the written word, "the dead letter." The formally registered "self-consciousness" of these narratives-accounts of the transition between being an object who is subject to the violence of mere syntax, and the self-objectification that results through the transaction of manumission in their becoming legitimate subjects-held in turns of phrase and figure are shown in an opening chapter to prefigure the auto-theoretical and archival methods of poetic and theoretical representations of blackness in contemporary black (literary, critical) study, just as they were the foundational pieces of "factual" evidence to the lives of the enslaved that helped to ground that field in the later 1960s.Overall, my project is aimed at recontextualizing the slave's writing, to show it working alongside other 19th century thinkers on the displacement of universalist enlightenment categorization through the ontological propositions produced in negative by way of their phenomenological accounts of the (black) being, or more precisely of the becoming being of the black person, in text. A description and theorization of this specific becoming that extends through (black, American) literature and theory past the floodgates of emancipation, through the failure of reconstruction and the multiple waves of black renaissance and rebellion, toward the establishment of the field of black study which has produced the very poetic ontologies the field now uses to narrate, poetically reconstitute, or politically reconcile (black) lives in general. As a result, the project includes a pointed genealogy of the contemporary investigations into the being of blackness, which carries back several poetic figures or polemical theories for a black ontology, indexed above by the work of Phillip and Wilderson, but also present in that of Frantz Fanon, Saidiya Hartman, Fred Moten, Hortense Spillers, Calvin Warren, Sylvia Wynter, et al.This subterrain genealogy demonstrates how the phenomenological and historiographical methods of representing and theorizing blackness developed out of and alongside the more canonical trajectory for their formulation across the 19th century and 20th century-from Hegel to Emerson to Nietzsche to Husserl to Heidegger to Sartre to Fanon to Derrida and so on. Which is to say, from the heart of the critical writing of the 19th and 20th century, the beginning of the critique of enlightenment. And that the slave narrative participates in this critique, particularly, through the deployment of several literary tactics with archival or auto-theoretical consequences-spinning false yarns about their pasts, building frame narratives, and using abstract figures to describe material conditions. These early black autobiographies are, in this light, synthetic documents that help reinvent the genre and purpose of autobiographical writing, merging the historiographical inventions of archival awareness with an auto-theorist's poetic approach to self-preservation, and thus anticipating if not creating the field of black study as it moves and works and has it's being today.
- 일반주제명
- African American studies
- 일반주제명
- American literature
- 일반주제명
- English literature
- 일반주제명
- Art criticism
- 일반주제명
- Black studies
- 키워드
- Narratives
- 키워드
- Poetics
- 키워드
- Black study
- 기타저자
- University of California, Berkeley English
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-04A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■520 ▼aMy dissertation "TO SAVE MY OWN LIFE: Antebellum Autobiography and the Figures for Black Ontology", directed by Stephen Best, revisits the autobiographical narrations of several canonical (formally enslaved) writers to discover in them the origins of the contemporary methods for black study-emblematized by the archival poetics of M. NourbeSe Phillip's Zong! and the auto-theoretical polemics of Frank Wilderson III's Afro-Pessimism. To articulate the relationship between these two poles of contemporary black critical thought- one that voices drowned slaves through a new vocabulary assembled from court documents, the other which polemicizes against coalition as it draws the reader closer and closer to its subject's position- my project revisits their dual origin in both the production and reception of three slave narratives. These narratives and texts, by Olaudah Equiano, Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Jacobs, make case studies for body chapters that address what lives on the other side of the constraints of a (white, abolitionist) literary market turned field of academic study. Alongside the more direct reference within each text to the author's awareness of their narrative's significance to their contemporary struggle for freedom, the subsequent debates surrounding Equiano's natality, Wheatley's proposing of initial figural position for black speakers, and crafting of a historical fiction, and the third Jacobs's self-metaphorization and references to the archives of enslavement, make the literary (historical) evidence in negative to the positive, radical, and ultimately ontological potentials of struggling to articulate life through an oppressive and abstract medium: the autobiography and, more broadly the written word, "the dead letter." The formally registered "self-consciousness" of these narratives-accounts of the transition between being an object who is subject to the violence of mere syntax, and the self-objectification that results through the transaction of manumission in their becoming legitimate subjects-held in turns of phrase and figure are shown in an opening chapter to prefigure the auto-theoretical and archival methods of poetic and theoretical representations of blackness in contemporary black (literary, critical) study, just as they were the foundational pieces of "factual" evidence to the lives of the enslaved that helped to ground that field in the later 1960s.Overall, my project is aimed at recontextualizing the slave's writing, to show it working alongside other 19th century thinkers on the displacement of universalist enlightenment categorization through the ontological propositions produced in negative by way of their phenomenological accounts of the (black) being, or more precisely of the becoming being of the black person, in text. A description and theorization of this specific becoming that extends through (black, American) literature and theory past the floodgates of emancipation, through the failure of reconstruction and the multiple waves of black renaissance and rebellion, toward the establishment of the field of black study which has produced the very poetic ontologies the field now uses to narrate, poetically reconstitute, or politically reconcile (black) lives in general. As a result, the project includes a pointed genealogy of the contemporary investigations into the being of blackness, which carries back several poetic figures or polemical theories for a black ontology, indexed above by the work of Phillip and Wilderson, but also present in that of Frantz Fanon, Saidiya Hartman, Fred Moten, Hortense Spillers, Calvin Warren, Sylvia Wynter, et al.This subterrain genealogy demonstrates how the phenomenological and historiographical methods of representing and theorizing blackness developed out of and alongside the more canonical trajectory for their formulation across the 19th century and 20th century-from Hegel to Emerson to Nietzsche to Husserl to Heidegger to Sartre to Fanon to Derrida and so on. Which is to say, from the heart of the critical writing of the 19th and 20th century, the beginning of the critique of enlightenment. And that the slave narrative participates in this critique, particularly, through the deployment of several literary tactics with archival or auto-theoretical consequences-spinning false yarns about their pasts, building frame narratives, and using abstract figures to describe material conditions. These early black autobiographies are, in this light, synthetic documents that help reinvent the genre and purpose of autobiographical writing, merging the historiographical inventions of archival awareness with an auto-theorist's poetic approach to self-preservation, and thus anticipating if not creating the field of black study as it moves and works and has it's being today.
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0028.
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