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This interdisciplinary and creative study examines how African American culture in presented in American films and other media, and is a provocative re-reading of the historiography of black culture. The author examines a number of cultural texts deriving memory as interpreted by Freud and by Franz Fanon mixed with Black Liberation Theology and even some Islamic mysticism, shedding new interpretive light on known and less-known texts. The book will appeal to scholars of the black diaspora, media studies, literature, and acculturation and identity politics.
This interdisciplinary and creative study examines how African American culture in presented in American films and other media, and is a provocative re-reading of the historiography of black culture. The author examines a number of cultural texts deriving memory as interpreted by Freud and by Franz Fanon mixed with Black Liberation Theology and even some Islamic mysticism, shedding new interpretive light on known and less-known texts. The book will appeal to scholars of the black diaspora, media studies, literature, and acculturation and identity politics.
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The primary function of our argument thus far has not been in the service of vindication, where the repetition of fixed images and ideas recuperates disrupted relationships between the past and the future by sacrificing subject positions in the present. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
authentic black being, vindicating narratives, white racial phantasm, formative pedagogy, troubling beginnings, enigmatic signification, racially ambiguous characters, active ambivalence, enigmatic signifier, critical psychoanalysis, internal alien, authentic blackness, anonymous young man, authenticity discourse, black authenticity, psychic interiority, formative potential, reconstructed histories, survival tales, racialized gender, racialized difference, racial ambiguity, black human being, black popular culture, found footage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Frantz Fanon, Los Angeles, Anna Deavere Smith, James Cone, Agent Pruitt, Spike Lee, Jean Laplanche, Black Panther Party, Betty Shabazz, Huey Newton, Black Skins White Masks, Divine Will, Grove Weidenfeld, Nation of Islam, African American, Kobena Mercer, The Bezels of Wisdom, Unity of Being, Former Gang Member, Homi Bhabha, Hortense Spillers, Black Manifesto, Detroit Red New!
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The primary function of our argument thus far has not been in the service of vindication, where the repetition of fixed images and ideas recuperates disrupted relationships between the past and the future by sacrificing subject positions in the present. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
authentic black being, vindicating narratives, white racial phantasm, formative pedagogy, troubling beginnings, enigmatic signification, racially ambiguous characters, active ambivalence, enigmatic signifier, critical psychoanalysis, internal alien, authentic blackness, anonymous young man, authenticity discourse, black authenticity, psychic interiority, formative potential, reconstructed histories, survival tales, racialized gender, racialized difference, racial ambiguity, black human being, black popular culture, found footage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Frantz Fanon, Los Angeles, Anna Deavere Smith, James Cone, Agent Pruitt, Spike Lee, Jean Laplanche, Black Panther Party, Betty Shabazz, Huey Newton, Black Skins White Masks, Divine Will, Grove Weidenfeld, Nation of Islam, African American, Kobena Mercer, The Bezels of Wisdom, Unity of Being, Former Gang Member, Homi Bhabha, Hortense Spillers, Black Manifesto, Detroit Red New!
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- Fires in the Mirror by Anna Deavere Smith on 5 pages
- Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon on 5 pages
- Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture by George Lipsitz on 4 pages
- Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (European Perspectives Series) by Professor Julia Kristeva on 4 pages
- Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (Basic Books Classics) by Sigmund Freud on 4 pages
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- Fanon: A Critical Reader (Blackwell Critical Reader) by Lewis R. Gordon on page 203
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