Starships and Slave Ships

Datos Bibliográficos

ID16705409
AutoresJonathan Jacob Moore (autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen31
Número1
Páginas143-158
Fecha de publicación2022-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaQui Parle (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1041-8385 • E-ISSN: 1938-8020
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/10418385-9669525
OpenAlexW4286291302
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas13

Evidence suggests that the UFO/alien abduction phenomenon is exclusively experienced by white people in the United States. But while scholars have probed abductee narratives to surface political and symbolic anxieties for decades, none have thought of the phenomenon’s whiteness alongside the archival absence of Black abductees. Using abductee accounts, interdisciplinary studies of the UFO abduction phenomena, and critiques of Black subjectivity, this article attends to the ontological anxieties that permeate UFO abduction narratives and their choreographic resonance with the psychosomatics of Black life. This article begins by examining the exceptional narrative of Barney Hill, America’s first and thus far only popular Black abductee. Then it brings into focus UFOlogy’s aporetic negation of racial subjectivity and suggests that the UFO abduction phenomenon is, a posteriori, inaccessible to the Black nonsubject. Finally, it returns to Hill’s experience and offers speculative implications of a libidinal relationship between the starship’s technics and the slave ship’s terror

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Negation · Phenomenon · Sociology · Subjectivity · White (mutation · Gender Studies · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Modern American Literature Studies · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies