... , that is, prosopon pros prosopon . Prosopon , the Greek word for mask, gave rise to the rhetorical figure of prosopopoeia ( prosopon poiein : to confer a mask or a face). A striking occurrence of prosopopoeia is found in the eighteenth-century British genre called “it-narrative,” in which inanimate things speak...

... points. The widespread refusal to wear a mask is effectively an insistence on breathing together, even if it marks the condition of one’s own last breath—or that of someone else, who may or may not have consented to sharing potentially deadly aerosol particles. Once a concern largely restricted to those...

... that as soon as the subject ventures into it, it runs the risk of fi nding itself somewhere it would rather not be. Frantz Fanon claims in Black Skin, White Masks that it is in the fetishism analyzed both by Freud and by Marx—or rather, where this analysis breaks down—that the psychopolitical...

...Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez Copyright © 2021 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2021 My eighty-seven-year-old father cuts holes in his masks. He says he can’t breathe otherwise. The fabric—whether stretchy, cotton, or woven—keeps him from taking full breaths, he protests. When we’re out, he pulls his...

... that follows. Building on Stuart Hall's observations that Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks "anticipates poststructuralism in a startling way,"8 I argue here that it is precisely the temporal structure of anticipation laid bare in Black Skin, White Masks that opens...

... with reality, and which were slowly refined between The Savage Mind and The Way of the Masks. At the same time that it would be able to dissolve eth- nographic enigmas, this logic suddenly reopened certain intellec- tual options, none of which are today unwarranted for welcoming...

... of human existence. It masks the confl icts at the basis of social forms of existence, confl icts be- tween opposed social classes, whose development is historical and dialectical. The third preliminary consideration concerns the translation of affi rmation and negation...

..., the impossibility of him ever writing, as it were, in propria persona. In Portuguese, that is, pessoa means both “person” and “persona” or “mask,” so that the pessoas diversas of the Pessoan texts—the three most important being named Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, and Ricardo...

... enigma and mask in Pressure Point?What role does his "race" play in the film's consideration of his image, his representability? For what, and how, is his portrayal necessarily limited to something seen and simultaneously barred in his image? And again: why does he...

.... Mavhunga, “Introduction,” 1 . 10. Garuba, “Explorations in Animist Materialism,” 267 . 11. Garuba, “Explorations in Animist Materialism,” 273–74 . 12. Garuba, “Explorations in Animist Materialism,” 274 . 13. Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks , 21 . [email protected]...

... worried Barney would jump out of the office window. And though Simon begins consoling Barney, assuring him that he cannot be harmed, Barney begs: “Those eyes: they’re in my brain. Please, can I wake up?” Fanon identifies this ocular assault in Black Skin, White Masks : “I am being dissected under white...

... for self-expression of the one who writes because, fundamentally, he does not have the say, but he has to serve a text that always escapes him. . . . The writer begins to know . . . how words mask, disfigure, distance, transport elsewhere or render mute.” 6 In Ta voix vit/Nous vivons language...

... everyday be- havior in an attempt to achieve a perfect aesthetic organization of life.”3 Prigov sought out this collapse, arguing that art is more than [a mask]. An image is a kind of existence. I must, fi rst, understand it, then enter into it and live. A mask, generally...

... infected, such inclusion also masks the violent exclusions it produces. The virus affects people and countries in differential ways, intensifying the partitions between the elderly and the young, between those who are locked in and those who are locked out, between the worker who saves lives and those who...

... and Hammer (Yale University Press) and two volumes of collected essays in Portuguese translation: Sign Margins Masks Maneuvers (Eduerj) and Modernitalia (Minas Gerais). BARBARA SPACKMAN is Professor of Comparative Literature and holds the Giovanni...

..., it’s to make their way closer to that écart— that “déchirure originelle” which language sews back up again but never complete- ly succeeds in masking “behind the veils of meaning” (“lc,” 135). Indeed, the sharper the description, the closer is the gap, the split, the déchirure: “the clear line...

.... Southern Waters: The Limits to Abundance. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2014. Coulthard, Glen Sean. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. Dillon, Elizabeth Maddock. New World Drama...

... Triangle , the couplet power-knowledge becomes power-knowledge-difference). 70 “That is the lesson—the somber majesty—of Fanon’s insight into the colonising experience in Black Skin, White Masks ,” on the basis of which Hall concludes that black cultural identity in the Caribbean is always...

... that was unfortunately held by a good number of giants of modern thought, we should not be able to do. As Frantz Fanon put it in Black Skin, White Masks, in the modern imagination reason takes fl ight whenever the black enters the scene.8 Theory in black, then, is already a phobogenic...

... to attain to the source of the world, and then I found that l was an object in the midst of other objects. —Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks' What does it mean to be that object in the midst of other objects," the thing against which all other...