TY  - THES
A1  - Nikolova, Mariya Dimitrova
T1  - How whiteness claimed the future
T2  - American Frictions
N2  - Interested in the ideological workings of fiction, I study how major avant-garde tropes promote the potential of permanent renewal as white America’s property. Renewal ties to the capacities to create, progress, transcend, and simply be. From Black critique we know that, within dominant discourse, all these capacities have been denied to Black bodies ever since colonization. Black work has been fetishized, appropriated, stolen, and dismissed in and by dominant culture, while Black being is construed as negativity and barred on the level of ontology. It follows then that racialization operates on multiple levels in the conceptual frame of renewal. I study this conceptualization by re-reading the works of and criticism on progressive white authors. I examine how images of renewal enable the claim on futurity, transformative potential, and movement forward as exclusively white properties. Premised on oppositions between positive capacities and a state of complete incapacitation, these images are often viewed as separate constructions. This project shows that, deriving from white ideology, such representations are symbiotic and simultaneous - the "good" story of white renewal rests on the continual transgression towards Black being.
KW  - anti-black representation
KW  - avant-gardism
KW  - futurity
KW  - newness
KW  - white violence
Y1  - 2023
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/58859
SN  - 978-3-11-079999-6
SN  - 978-3-11-079971-2
VL  - 7
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin
ER  -