Table of Contents

Preface vii
Introduction: Under Representation 1
1. The Aesthetic Regime of Representation 19
2. The Pathological Sublime: Pleasure and Pain in the Racial Regime 44
3. Race under Representation 69
4. Representation’s Coup 95
5. The Aesthetic Taboo: Aura, Magic, and the Primitive 124
Notes 161
Bibliography 205
Index 221

About the Author

David Lloyd is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author, most recently, of Beckett’s Thing: Painting and Theatre.

Reviews

If there is any hope for the human, and if the idea of the human is of any use to the enactment of that hope, then the aesthetic claims and categories through which the human and its subjects are exalted and degraded must be placed under the most violent and most loving scrutiny. Under Representation exemplifies such scrutiny. The rigorous care with which David Lloyd examines and challenges the entanglement of race, representation and the aesthetic is irresistible and indispensable. Under Representation is a major, and singular, achievement.---Fred Moten, New York University