The Urban-Rural Binary in Black American Film and Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15415667 |
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| Authors | Antonio Antonio (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 116-116 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Black Camera (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1536-3155 • E-ISSN: 1947-4237 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/blc.2009.1.1.116 |
| OpenAlex | W2027966383 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
This essay examines the urban and rural settings of black narratives and how they illuminate race relations in American society. It deploys fluid notions of blackness and identity in postslavery America that in part rely on the movement between these two geographical, ideological, and cultural sites. The urban-rural binary is an incubator for what I call the composite character, which refers to any form of reinvented blackness. Thus, any character composed of multiple disparate elements or ideologies such as rural and urban, North and South, black and white, rich and poor, etc., is a composite character. This binary is essential to the study of the black identity in films because it represents a central theme in American history; it is core to the development of postslavery blackness and is key to the understanding of black life today
Aesthetics · Art · Character (mathematics · Identity (music · Ideology · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Sociology · Theme (computing · White (mutation · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society · South Asian Cinema and Culture
| Highly cited | No |
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