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Haunted Life: Visual Culture and Black Modernity
David Marriott
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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.
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 ... Read more
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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
498g
Number of Pages
293
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813540283
SKU
V9780813540283
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About David Marriott
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.
Reviews for Haunted Life: Visual Culture and Black Modernity
This volume is an elegantly written, ethically grounded, and intelligently observed series of meditations of relations that have been produced by the traumatic legacies of slavery around the Black Atlantic world.
Jacqueline Goldsby
Associate Professor of English, University of Chicago
Jacqueline Goldsby
Associate Professor of English, University of Chicago