Andrew Asibong
Biographic Data
| ID | 1718699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Asibong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Asibong |
| SIGNATURE | ASIBONG A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Objet Petit la di da , or the Jouissance of Verbal Ineptitude
In my response to Daniel Butler’s paper in this issue, I reflect on the psychotherapeutic challenge to “say anything” through the lens of my formative adolescent internalization of the speech patterns of certain film stars, most notably Diane Keaton in performances from the late 1970s and early 1980s. Focusing on what it might mean, intersubjectively speaking, to oscillate more freely between articulacy and inarticulacy, I posit a potential for e…
Tu n’as rien vu en Haïti: Discussion of Shari Appollon’s Paper
Circles of Sorrow: Discussion of David Eng’s and Shinhee Han’s “Racial Rage, Racial Guilt: The Uses of Anger in Asian America”
Using David Eng’s and Shinhee Han’s article in this issue as a point of departure, I respond to their discussion of Asian American subjectivity as it is represented in the Netflix series Beef. Focusing on the challenges faced by “hybrid” groups and individuals who find themselves blocked from both the expression of rage and the experience of self-representation, I reflect on the emotional and ontological vicissitudes of a range of “in-betweeners”…
Walking on Thin Ice: Discussion of Kris Yi’s “Asian American Experience: The Illusion of Inclusion and the Model Minority Stereotype”
Using Kris Yi’s article in this issue as a point of departure, I explore the desperate lengths of “not-knowing” to which a simultaneously invisibilized and racialized individual must go in order to survive in the care of a narcissistic parents and/or state structures. Following Yi, I consider the ways in which violently racialized events can release repressed knowledge, together with traumatic affect, in the dissociated individual in psychotherap…
Whiteness and Fog: Thinking About Traumatic Narcissism in a Racialized Context
Starting with the memory of a scene featuring Sidney Poitier and a baby in the Western Duel at Diablo (1966), the author reflects on the potential function of certain moving images for people who have been affected by parental narcissism in their early years. He considers this phenomenon auto-ethnographically and in its specifically racialized context, arguing that, if we are serious about deepening our psychosocial understanding of the workings …
Discussion of Green’s “Melanie Klein and the Black Mammy: An Exploration of the Influence of the Mammy Stereotype on Klein’s Maternal and Its Contribution to the ‘Whiteness’ of Psychoanalysis”
This article is a response, in cinematic, historical, and autobiographical terms, to Emily Green’s “Melanie Klein and the Black Mammy: An Exploration of the Influence of the Mammy Stereotype on Klein’s Maternal and Its Contribution to the ‘Whiteness’ of Psychoanalysis.” The author attempts to open up Green’s analysis to a wide range of aesthetic, emotional, and political implications, moving between a consideration of the “passing” motif in Dougl…
Introduction to Two Pieces by Vicky Lebeau and Hannah Eaton
Vicky Lebeau and Hannah Eaton both attended a symposium held at Birkbeck, University of London, on April 24, 2015, to mark 50 years since the publication of Sanity, Madness and the Family, R. D. Laing and Aaron Esterson’s landmark psychosocial study of “schizophrenia” in 11 young British women. Silently present as audience members rather than speakers, each of them nevertheless responded afterward to the voices of the symposium in her own distinc…
ThenLook: Unborn Attachments and the Half-Moving Image
This article explores the emotional impact on the viewer of disturbing and disorienting images of infant-caregiver relationality in four “melo-horror” films: Imitation of Life (Stahl, 1934), Imitation of Life (Sirk, 1959), The Brood (Cronenberg, 1979), and Beloved (Demme, 1998). Comparing some of these filmic images with the infant performances of “disorganized” attachment styles captured on videotape by attachment researchers such as Mary Main, …
Marie NDiaye: Blankness and Recognition
This is the first critical study in English to focus exclusively on the work of Marie NDiaye, born in central France in 1967, winner of the Prix Femina (2001), the Prix Goncourt (2009), shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize (2013), and widely considered to be one of the most important French authors of her generation. Andrew Asibong argues that at the heart of NDiaye’s world lurks an indefinable ‘blankness’ which makes it impossible …
Marie NDiaye: Blankness and Recognition
This is the first critical study in English to focus exclusively on the work of Marie NDiaye, born in central France in 1967, winner of the Prix Femina (2001), the Prix Goncourt (2009), shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize (2013), and widely considered to be one of the most important French authors of her generation. Andrew Asibong argues that at the heart of NDiaye?s world lurks an indefinable ?blankness? which makes it impossible …
The Spectacle of Marie NDiaye's Trois femmes puissantes
This article interrogates the bizarre disjunction between the loosely-linked tales of Marie NDiaye's 2009 bestseller Trois femmes puissantes and the manner in which they have been marketed as a single, coherent, realistic novel about "strong African women". This deformation by the market has made NDiaye's previously more complex and oblique - but less economically viable - evocations of racialized "difference" somehow culturally digestible. Trois…
Marie NDiaye, the Half-self and the White ‘Dead’ mother
This article uses writings by the French novelist and playwright Marie NDiaye (born in Pithiviers in 1967) to theorize a very particular kind of postcolonial inhumanness specific to certain ‘hybrid’ subjects. NDiaye’s work revolves obsessively around the psychic (and often fantastically physical) disintegration of characters (coded as a racialized minority) who fail to internalize a sufficiently ‘alive’ imago of their mother (coded as white). The…
Nouveau Désordre: Diabolical Queerness in 1950s French Cinema
1950s France was not the safest cultural terrain on which to build queer cinematic images.1 The gay men of the 1930s French cinema glory days had beaten a sharp retreat back into the celluloid closet.2 The Nazi Occupation introduced anti-gay legislation in France for the first time since the 1791 reforms (and this regression was to remain in place until François Mitterand’s 1981 victory). Yet after the war, gay people were associated with collabo…
Radically Fantastical: The Politics of the Truth-Event in the “Metic” Novels of Mohammed Dib and Marie Ndiaye
Travel sickness: Marie NDiaye, Herv Guibert and the liquidation of the White Fantasy-Subject
This paper considers some of the psychic and cultural implications of identity disintegration in works by French writers Marie NDiaye (born 1967) and Herv Guibert (19551991). In Guibert's Le Paradis (1992), the unravelling narrative (part-detective story, part postcolonial travelogue set in West Africa and the Caribbean) forces the European narrator's fantasy subjectivity apart, yanking him out of a zone of solidly racialised and sexualized privi…
Meat, murder, metamorphosis the transformational ethics of François Ozon
This article argues that French filmmaker François Ozon's fantastical explorations of murder and metamorphosis provide a surprisingly ethical commentary on the tightly interwoven cultural processes of social reification and identity fetishization. Using the two early films Sitcom (1998) and Les Amants criminels (1999) as a point of departure, it claims that Ozon is essentially concerned with the different ways in which the subject appropriates al…
Mulier Sacra: Marie Chauvet, Marie Darrieussecq and the Sexual Metamorphoses of `Bare Life
In his recent work "Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life", the prolific Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben elaborates an idiosyncratic and highly provocative conception of sacredness. I want to explore the ethical and \npolitical implications of Agamben’s concept of "homo sacer" or sacred man, juxtaposing his philosophical insights into the brutal workings of modern ‘democratic’ power with comparable literary visions provided by two controv…
Mulier Sacra: Marie Chauvet, Marie Darrieussecq and the Sexual Metamorphoses of `Bare Life
In his recent work "Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life", the prolific Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben elaborates an idiosyncratic and highly provocative conception of sacredness. I want to explore the ethical and \npolitical implications of Agamben’s concept of "homo sacer" or sacred man, juxtaposing his philosophical insights into the brutal workings of modern ‘democratic’ power with comparable literary visions provided by two controv…
ThenLook: Unborn Attachments and the Half-Moving Image
This article explores the emotional impact on the viewer of disturbing and disorienting images of infant-caregiver relationality in four “melo-horror” films: Imitation of Life (Stahl, 1934), Imitation of Life (Sirk, 1959), The Brood (Cronenberg, 1979), and Beloved (Demme, 1998). Comparing some of these filmic images with the infant performances of “disorganized” attachment styles captured on videotape by attachment researchers such as Mary Main, …
The Spectacle of Marie NDiaye's Trois femmes puissantes
This article interrogates the bizarre disjunction between the loosely-linked tales of Marie NDiaye's 2009 bestseller Trois femmes puissantes and the manner in which they have been marketed as a single, coherent, realistic novel about "strong African women". This deformation by the market has made NDiaye's previously more complex and oblique - but less economically viable - evocations of racialized "difference" somehow culturally digestible. Trois…
Marie NDiaye, the Half-self and the White ‘Dead’ mother
This article uses writings by the French novelist and playwright Marie NDiaye (born in Pithiviers in 1967) to theorize a very particular kind of postcolonial inhumanness specific to certain ‘hybrid’ subjects. NDiaye’s work revolves obsessively around the psychic (and often fantastically physical) disintegration of characters (coded as a racialized minority) who fail to internalize a sufficiently ‘alive’ imago of their mother (coded as white). The…
Meat, murder, metamorphosis the transformational ethics of François Ozon
This article argues that French filmmaker François Ozon's fantastical explorations of murder and metamorphosis provide a surprisingly ethical commentary on the tightly interwoven cultural processes of social reification and identity fetishization. Using the two early films Sitcom (1998) and Les Amants criminels (1999) as a point of departure, it claims that Ozon is essentially concerned with the different ways in which the subject appropriates al…
Mulier Sacra: Marie Chauvet, Marie Darrieussecq and the Sexual Metamorphoses of `Bare Life
In his recent work "Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life", the prolific Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben elaborates an idiosyncratic and highly provocative conception of sacredness. I want to explore the ethical and \npolitical implications of Agamben’s concept of "homo sacer" or sacred man, juxtaposing his philosophical insights into the brutal workings of modern ‘democratic’ power with comparable literary visions provided by two controv…
Meat, murder, metamorphosis the transformational ethics of François Ozon
This article argues that French filmmaker François Ozon's fantastical explorations of murder and metamorphosis provide a surprisingly ethical commentary on the tightly interwoven cultural processes of social reification and identity fetishization. Using the two early films Sitcom (1998) and Les Amants criminels (1999) as a point of departure, it claims that Ozon is essentially concerned with the different ways in which the subject appropriates al…
Travel sickness: Marie NDiaye, Herv Guibert and the liquidation of the White Fantasy-Subject
This paper considers some of the psychic and cultural implications of identity disintegration in works by French writers Marie NDiaye (born 1967) and Herv Guibert (19551991). In Guibert's Le Paradis (1992), the unravelling narrative (part-detective story, part postcolonial travelogue set in West Africa and the Caribbean) forces the European narrator's fantasy subjectivity apart, yanking him out of a zone of solidly racialised and sexualized privi…
Radically Fantastical: The Politics of the Truth-Event in the “Metic” Novels of Mohammed Dib and Marie Ndiaye
Nouveau Désordre: Diabolical Queerness in 1950s French Cinema
1950s France was not the safest cultural terrain on which to build queer cinematic images.1 The gay men of the 1930s French cinema glory days had beaten a sharp retreat back into the celluloid closet.2 The Nazi Occupation introduced anti-gay legislation in France for the first time since the 1791 reforms (and this regression was to remain in place until François Mitterand’s 1981 victory). Yet after the war, gay people were associated with collabo…
Marie NDiaye: Blankness and Recognition
This is the first critical study in English to focus exclusively on the work of Marie NDiaye, born in central France in 1967, winner of the Prix Femina (2001), the Prix Goncourt (2009), shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize (2013), and widely considered to be one of the most important French authors of her generation. Andrew Asibong argues that at the heart of NDiaye?s world lurks an indefinable ?blankness? which makes it impossible …
The Spectacle of Marie NDiaye's Trois femmes puissantes
This article interrogates the bizarre disjunction between the loosely-linked tales of Marie NDiaye's 2009 bestseller Trois femmes puissantes and the manner in which they have been marketed as a single, coherent, realistic novel about "strong African women". This deformation by the market has made NDiaye's previously more complex and oblique - but less economically viable - evocations of racialized "difference" somehow culturally digestible. Trois…
Marie NDiaye, the Half-self and the White ‘Dead’ mother
This article uses writings by the French novelist and playwright Marie NDiaye (born in Pithiviers in 1967) to theorize a very particular kind of postcolonial inhumanness specific to certain ‘hybrid’ subjects. NDiaye’s work revolves obsessively around the psychic (and often fantastically physical) disintegration of characters (coded as a racialized minority) who fail to internalize a sufficiently ‘alive’ imago of their mother (coded as white). The…
Marie NDiaye: Blankness and Recognition
This is the first critical study in English to focus exclusively on the work of Marie NDiaye, born in central France in 1967, winner of the Prix Femina (2001), the Prix Goncourt (2009), shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize (2013), and widely considered to be one of the most important French authors of her generation. Andrew Asibong argues that at the heart of NDiaye’s world lurks an indefinable ‘blankness’ which makes it impossible …
Introduction to Two Pieces by Vicky Lebeau and Hannah Eaton
Vicky Lebeau and Hannah Eaton both attended a symposium held at Birkbeck, University of London, on April 24, 2015, to mark 50 years since the publication of Sanity, Madness and the Family, R. D. Laing and Aaron Esterson’s landmark psychosocial study of “schizophrenia” in 11 young British women. Silently present as audience members rather than speakers, each of them nevertheless responded afterward to the voices of the symposium in her own distinc…
ThenLook: Unborn Attachments and the Half-Moving Image
This article explores the emotional impact on the viewer of disturbing and disorienting images of infant-caregiver relationality in four “melo-horror” films: Imitation of Life (Stahl, 1934), Imitation of Life (Sirk, 1959), The Brood (Cronenberg, 1979), and Beloved (Demme, 1998). Comparing some of these filmic images with the infant performances of “disorganized” attachment styles captured on videotape by attachment researchers such as Mary Main, …
Discussion of Green’s “Melanie Klein and the Black Mammy: An Exploration of the Influence of the Mammy Stereotype on Klein’s Maternal and Its Contribution to the ‘Whiteness’ of Psychoanalysis”
This article is a response, in cinematic, historical, and autobiographical terms, to Emily Green’s “Melanie Klein and the Black Mammy: An Exploration of the Influence of the Mammy Stereotype on Klein’s Maternal and Its Contribution to the ‘Whiteness’ of Psychoanalysis.” The author attempts to open up Green’s analysis to a wide range of aesthetic, emotional, and political implications, moving between a consideration of the “passing” motif in Dougl…
Whiteness and Fog: Thinking About Traumatic Narcissism in a Racialized Context
Starting with the memory of a scene featuring Sidney Poitier and a baby in the Western Duel at Diablo (1966), the author reflects on the potential function of certain moving images for people who have been affected by parental narcissism in their early years. He considers this phenomenon auto-ethnographically and in its specifically racialized context, arguing that, if we are serious about deepening our psychosocial understanding of the workings …
Walking on Thin Ice: Discussion of Kris Yi’s “Asian American Experience: The Illusion of Inclusion and the Model Minority Stereotype”
Using Kris Yi’s article in this issue as a point of departure, I explore the desperate lengths of “not-knowing” to which a simultaneously invisibilized and racialized individual must go in order to survive in the care of a narcissistic parents and/or state structures. Following Yi, I consider the ways in which violently racialized events can release repressed knowledge, together with traumatic affect, in the dissociated individual in psychotherap…
Circles of Sorrow: Discussion of David Eng’s and Shinhee Han’s “Racial Rage, Racial Guilt: The Uses of Anger in Asian America”
Using David Eng’s and Shinhee Han’s article in this issue as a point of departure, I respond to their discussion of Asian American subjectivity as it is represented in the Netflix series Beef. Focusing on the challenges faced by “hybrid” groups and individuals who find themselves blocked from both the expression of rage and the experience of self-representation, I reflect on the emotional and ontological vicissitudes of a range of “in-betweeners”…
Tu n’as rien vu en Haïti: Discussion of Shari Appollon’s Paper
Objet Petit la di da , or the Jouissance of Verbal Ineptitude
In my response to Daniel Butler’s paper in this issue, I reflect on the psychotherapeutic challenge to “say anything” through the lens of my formative adolescent internalization of the speech patterns of certain film stars, most notably Diane Keaton in performances from the late 1970s and early 1980s. Focusing on what it might mean, intersubjectively speaking, to oscillate more freely between articulacy and inarticulacy, I posit a potential for e…
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