Haunted Life

Haunted Life Visual Culture and Black Modernity

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780813540283
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 293
Weight: 418g
Height: 152mm
Width: 227mm
Spine width: 24mm