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Journal Article
FORCE FIELDS: Afropessimism and the Figural Negro Ruminations on American Fiction
2024
Overview
Would it matter if I published this essay under a pseudonym, which hid all the markers of my identity, including my race? Does that identity always matter to what T say, drawing on the authority of the experience I bring to the task? Or might it matter more to how it is read by you, the reader, who carries a cargo of expectations about what that experience really is or what, in the current jargon, my \"positionality\" should be? Would a pseudonym successfully short-circuit posing these questions, or would it merely imitate the stratagem chosen by the flawed hero of the movie about which I'm writing, who hides behind a nam deplume in order to sell a pseudo-autobiographical potboiler about allegedly authentic Black life? Is it, however, possible to reveal an \"authentic\" self or do we always present an artificial persona, perhaps many, to the world?
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Skidmore College
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