Haunted Life: Visual Culture and Black Modernity - Softcover

Marriott, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813540283 ISBN 13: 9780813540283

Verlag: Univ of Chicago behalf of Rutgers Univ Press, 2007

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In Haunted Life, David Marriott examines the complex interplay between racial fears and anxieties and the political-visual cultures of suspicion and state terror. He compels readers to consider how media technologies are "haunted" by the phantom of racial slavery. Through examples from film and television, modernist literature, and philosophy, he shows how the ideological image of a brutal African past is endlessly recycled and how this perpetuation of historical catastrophe stokes our nation's race-conscious paranoia.

Drawing on a range of comparative readings by writers, theorists, and filmmakers, including John Edgar Wideman, Frantz Fanon, Richard Wright, Issac Julien, Alain Locke, and Sidney Poitier, Haunted Life is a bold and original exploration of the legacies of black visual culture and the political, deeply sexualized violence that lies buried beneath it.

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David Marriott is an associate professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Incognegro and On Black Men.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Univ of Chicago behalf of Rutgers Univ Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0813540283
• ISBN 13: 9780813540283
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 308
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