{"product_id":"forms-of-blackness-race-and-visibility-in-the-french-speaking-world-9781478038764","title":"Forms of Blackness: Race and Visibility in the French-Speaking World","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Cécile Bishop\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - African American Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eForms of Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e examines how race can be approached as a form shaped and perceived through visual and aesthetic practices. C�cile Bishop offers a new way of thinking about the politics of visibility and presses readers to question how to interpret what they see.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Considering race as form across literature, theory, painting, and photography, C�cile Bishop's \u003ci\u003eForms of Blackness \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the formal devices that make blackness both visible and recognizable. In keeping with black Francophone theorists like �douard Glissant and Frantz Fanon, Bishop uses the ambiguities these aesthetic forms carry to explore a range of identity concepts like opacity, formlessness, and doubleness. Bishop puts blackness-as-race and blackness-as-form in dialogue, showing how race disrupts the concept of artistic autonomy and how the aesthetic challenges race as a self-evident visual phenomenon. When thought together, form does not isolate blackness from race but rather calls attention to the material substrate that turns race into a phenomenon that can be experienced through sense perception. Moving between careful analysis and experimental modes of critique, \u003ci\u003eForms of Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new way of thinking about the politics of visibility and offers a pressing invitation to question the ways we interpret what we see.","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47966657970327,"sku":"9781478038764","price":3149.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781478038764.webp?v=1782911709","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/forms-of-blackness-race-and-visibility-in-the-french-speaking-world-9781478038764","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}