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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.

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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 *

Table of Contents
Spooks : Wideman's catastrophe
That within
"The derived life of fiction" : race, childhood, and culture
Black narcissus : Isaac Julien
Letters to Langston
The love of neither-either : racial integration in Pressure point
Bonding over phobia
Afterword: ice cold

Haunted Life Visual Culture and Black Modernity

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    Publisher: Rutgers University Press
    Publication Date: 27/03/2007
    ISBN13: 9780813540283, 978-0813540283
    ISBN10: 0813540283
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    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.

    Trade Review
    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 *

    Table of Contents
    Spooks : Wideman's catastrophe
    That within
    "The derived life of fiction" : race, childhood, and culture
    Black narcissus : Isaac Julien
    Letters to Langston
    The love of neither-either : racial integration in Pressure point
    Bonding over phobia
    Afterword: ice cold

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