Cassandra Jackson

Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body

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Produktbeschreibung

Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body considers images of wounded black men on various stages, including early photography, contemporary art, hip hop, and new media. Focusing primarily on photographic images, Jackson explores the wound as a specular moment that mediates power relations between seers and the seen.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780415880428
• ISBN-10: 0415880424
• Artikelnr.: 31081388

Autorenporträt

Cassandra Jackson is Associate Professor of American literature at The College of New Jersey. She is the author of 'Barriers Between Us' Interracial Sex in 19th Century American Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Early Photography and the
Cultural Work of Wounds 2: Photography and the Disabled Black Subject in
the Art of Carrie Mae Weems 3: Fantasies of Wounding: Black Male Bodies in
Hip Hop 4: Branding Black Men: Hank Willis Thomas's B®anded series 5: The
Appropriation of Lynching Photography 6: Seeing Without Looking: Lynching
in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition Notes Bibliography Index