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Haunted Life

Visual Culture and Black Modernity

David Marriott author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Rutgers University Press

Published:27th Mar '07

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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.

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 *

ISBN: 9780813540283

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm

Weight: 510g

293 pages