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Brutal Misprisions: Woolf, Moten, Hartman

Benjamin D. Hagen

Woolf & Dissidence: The 34th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf

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“particularly due to one diary entry…”

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Fred Moten & Saidiya Hartman

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“the subject of Woolf and race”

Gerzina

Seshagiri

Sarker

Doyle

Jones

Evans

Snaith

Goldman

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Saidiya Hartman

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“… the difficulty and slipperiness of empathy”

(Hartman 19)

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Hartman

Empathy

Hyper-embodiedness

Fungibility

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“the degradation stamped on him”

(Woolf 23)

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Fred Moten

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Elizabeth Eckford (1957)

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Moten

universality

clear-eyed

inability (to imagine)

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“… in jungles, storms, birth & death”

(Woolf 22)

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Brutal Misprisions: Woolf, Moten, Hartman

Benjamin D. Hagen

Woolf & Dissidence: The 34th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf

This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA

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