The Slave Narrative and Filmic Aesthetics
Steve McQueen, Solomon Northup, and Colonial Violence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11272067 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip Kaisary (0000-0002-3578-8630, Carleton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 94-114 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | MELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-755X • E-ISSN: 1946-3170 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/melus/mlx032 |
| OpenAlex | W2612227270 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 9 |
In recent years, the cultural and political memory of slavery has occupied an unusual prominence in public comment and debate. Various explanations for this can be found in the reemergence of calls for reparations, renewed scholarly attention to the relationship between slavery and capitalism, and several anniversaries commemorating the abolition of slavery in the Atlantic world.1 Concomitant with this heightened awareness, there has been a dramatic upsurge in popular cinematic works of widely varying quality and ideological intent focused on black history and the legacies of slavery. In some cases, slavery has merely served as a backdrop to Hollywood action-drama—for example, Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (2012), a stylized revenge thriller that revives the archetype of the “black cowboy”—while in others black experience is subordinate to the further mythologization of a small number of “white anti-slavery heroes,” such as Abraham Lincoln and William Wilberforce; Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (2012) and Michael Apted’s Amazing Grace (2006) exemplify this approach.2
Aesthetics · Archetype · Art · Art history · Colonialism · Drama · Expansionism · Hollywood · Ideology · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · White (mutation · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |