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This impressive collection of essays by Lindon Barrett, one of the most brilliant theoreticians of his generation, carves a pathway between two discrete fields of discourse and brings them into mutual attraction. African American literary and cultural studies and poststructuralist persuasions in general are customarily thought of as not only disparate intellectual technologies, but widely divergent human and historical orders. Conditions of the Present is having none of it: in Barrett's readings, these textual neighbors powerfully meld to our collective benefit. --Hortense J. Spillers, author of Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture It is difficult to imagine a more urgent intellectual return, or a more vital work of mourning, than Conditions of the Present. Reading Lindon Barrett is unsettling, because he was a scholar who never settled. This lovingly curated collection is an impossible thank you for his critical wisdom, as well as a demanding provocation to wise up. We are still--or ought still to be--catching up with Lindon Barrett, for his work conditions our ongoing present. --David Kazanjian, author of The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World

This impressive collection of essays by Lindon Barrett, one of the most brilliant theoreticians of his generation, carves a pathway between two discrete fields of discourse and brings them into mutual attraction. African American literary and cultural studies and poststructuralist persuasions in general are not only customarily thought of as disparate intellectual technologies, but widely divergent human and historical orders. Conditions of the Present is having none of it: in Barrett's readings, these textual neighbors powerfully meld to our collective benefit. -- Hortense J. Spillers, author of * Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture * It is difficult to imagine a more urgent intellectual return, or a more vital work of mourning, than Conditions of the Present. Reading Lindon Barrett is unsettling, because he was a scholar who never settled. This lovingly curated collection is an impossible thank you for his critical wisdom, as well as a demanding provocation to wise up. We are still-or ought still to be-catching up with Lindon Barrett, for his work conditions our ongoing present. -- David Kazanjian, author of * The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World *

“Conditions of the Present validates Lindon Barrett’s brilliant career in African American studies. Recommended.” -- L. L. Johnson * Choice *

Conditions of the Present validates Lindon Barrett's brilliant career in African American studies. Recommended. -- L. L. Johnson * Choice *

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Lindon Barrett (1961–2008) was Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of California, Riverside, and the author of Blackness and Value: Seeing Double and Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity. Janet Neary is Associate Professor of English at Hunter College, City University of New York, and the author of Fugitive Testimony: On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives.

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