Hortense J. Spillers - (Living Existentialism) by Tendayi Sithole (Hardcover)

About the Book

This book anchors literary critic Hortense J. Spillers's thought into conceptual forms of subject, abject, and insurgent, distilling each individually and then examining how they relate to one another to confront and combat racist heteropatriarchal forces that cement antiblackness.

Book Synopsis

This book anchors literary critic Hortense J. Spillers's thought into conceptual forms of subject, abject, and insurgent, distilling each individually and then examining how they relate to one another to confront and combat racist heteropatriarchal forces that cement antiblackness.

Review Quotes

Sithole captures the necessity, innovation, and capaciousness of Hortense J. Spillersmdash;a figure of thought, as both an epistemological object to study and a remarkable intellectual to admire. Since Spillers traverses disciplinary boundaries and methodologies, her work is uncategorizable and reorients thought itself. Sithole, masterfully, demonstrates this reorientation of thought through careful and incisive readings of Spillersrsquo;s canonical essays and imperishable contributions to feminism, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. Hortense J. Spillersrsquo;s insurgent thought provides a crucial text for living, enduring, and refashioning Black existence. This book displays the radical potential and importance of such insurgency.

About the Author

Tendayi Sithole is professor in the department of political sciences, University of South Africa. He is the author of Black X: Liberatory Thought in Azania, amongst other books.