Is there “something to save”?: Death and Hope in Afro-Pessimism, Queer Negativity, and the late Baldwin

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dc.contributor.authorClark, Crystal Brookeen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-20T16:32:33Zen_US
dc.date.available2018-02-20T16:32:33Zen_US
dc.date.issued2018en_US
dc.descriptionSubmission to the Friends of Fondren Library Research Awards, 2018.en_US
dc.descriptionThis paper was originally prepared for Course ENGL 570, Fall 2017: Blackness: An Advanced Seminar in African American Literature, given by Professor Nicole Waligora-Davis, Department of English.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores the connections and dissensions between two fields of thought, which scholars rarely discuss alongside each other: Afro-Pessimism and Queer Negativity. Through interweaving Baldwin’s late nonfiction and interviews with these two fields, I ask theorists of Afro-Pessimism and Queer Negativity questions concerning their understandings of death, subjectivity, temporality, and hope. In doing so, I do not seek to compare these methodologies against one another to fashion a hierarchy; rather I place these theories in conversation with one another in the hopes to find how Afro-Pessimism’s logic can challenge Queer Negativity and how Queer Negativity’s logic can further Afro-Pessimism. While these two theoretical fields are immersed in death, negativity, irredeemability, and hopelessness, I use the insights of late Baldwin to unfold Afro-Pessimism and Queer Negativity and then tie them together. Ultimately, I argue that these modes of thought are anything but hopeless and assert that hope is located in the intense, provocative, and generative power of their works themselves.en_US
dc.identifier.citationClark, Crystal Brooke. "Is there “something to save”?: Death and Hope in Afro-Pessimism, Queer Negativity, and the late Baldwin." (2018) Rice University: <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/99267">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/99267</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.digitalClarken_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/99267en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherRice Universityen_US
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/en_US
dc.subjectEnglishen_US
dc.titleIs there “something to save”?: Death and Hope in Afro-Pessimism, Queer Negativity, and the late Baldwinen_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
dc.type.genreResearch paperen_US
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