Harlem

Contents: 1. Harlem. 2. Bibliography.

In this volume Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak engages with 16 photographs by photographer Alice Attie as she attempts teleopoiesis, a reaching toward the distant other though the emphathetic power of the imagination. In the hands of Spivak, teleopoiesis is a kind of identity politics in which one disrupts identity as a result of migration or exile. For the last two decades, Spivak notes, Harlem has been the focus of major economic development. As the old Harlem disappears into a present that simultaneously demands and rejects a cultural essence, Spivak dwells in Attie\'s images, trying to navigate some middle ground between the rock of social history and the hard place of a seamless culture. (jacket)