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David Marriott

David Marriott is a British philosopher, poet and Charles T. Winship Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. He is known for his works on comparative literature, psychoanalysis, Black cultural theory and philosophies of race.

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David Marriott
Born1963 (age 62–63)
Education
EducationUniversity of Sussex (PhD)
Philosophical work
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
InstitutionsEmory University
Main interests
comparative literature, psychoanalysis, Black cultural theory, philosophies of race
Notable ideas
Fanon's n'est pas

David Marriott (born 1963) is a British philosopher, poet and Charles T. Winship Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. He is known for his works on comparative literature, psychoanalysis, Black cultural theory and philosophies of race.123

Bibliography

Bibliography

Academic

  • Of Effacement: Blackness and Non-Being (Standford UP, 2023)
  • Lacan Noir: Lacan in Black Studies (Palgrave Lacan Series, 2020)
  • Whither Fanon?: Studies in the Blackness of Being (Stanford University Press, Cultural Memory of the Present, 2018)
  • Haunted Life: Visual Culture and Black Modernity (New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, 2007)
  • On Black Men (Edinburgh and New York, Edinburgh University Press and Columbia University Press, 2000)

Creative

  • Letters from the Black Ark (Omnidawn, 2023, forthcoming)
  • Before Whiteness (City Lights, 2022)
  • Duppies (Commune Editions, 2019)
  • Duppies (London: London Materials, 2017)
  • In-Neuter (Equipage: Cambridge, 2012)
  • The Bloods (Exeter, Shearsman Books, 2011)
  • Hoodoo Voodoo (London, Shearsman Books, 2008)
  • Incognegro (Cambridge, Salt Publications, 2006)
References

References

  1. "BAR Book Forum: David Marriott's "Whither Fanon?"". Black Agenda Report. 28 September 2021.
  2. Maher, Geo (2022). "Neither Optimism nor Pessimism: A review of David Marriott, Whither Fanon?". Postmodern Culture. 32 (2). doi:10.1353/pmc.2022.0010. ISSN 1053-1920. S2CID 252520876.
  3. "David Marriott". Stanford Humanities Center.
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