...The New Historicist Return of the Repressed Context ...

... the individual mind’s power through forms of collaboration and writing that foreground a distributed black intellect and collective genius. It ends by imagining an early American studies less beholden to historicist approaches and that takes seriously Black studies’ challenge to divisions between sense...

... studies less beholden to historicist approaches and that takes seriously Black studies’ challenge to divisions between sense and reason, empiricism and speculation, what Fred Moten calls the “mysticism of the flesh.” empiricism rationalism slavery Nat Turner Martin Delany In ways that have...