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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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