Flesh Like One's Own
Benign Denials of Legitimate Complaint
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2428320 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kaiama L Glover (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 235-260 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0899-2363 • E-ISSN: 1527-8018 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/08992363-3749045 |
| OpenAlex | W2604063346 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 31 |
This essay looks pointedly at a broad phenomenon wherein ostensibly benign discourses-from the news media to the Hollywood film industry to humanitarian aid-grant permission for North Atlantic denial of human proximity to peoples of the so-called global South. Taking the figure of the (Haitian) zombie as pivot point, the essay reflects on the continuity between dehumanized discursive and visual representations of (postearthquake) Haitians, sub-Saharan Africans, and other immiserated "others." In question is what exactly the contemporary zombie allows "First World" citizenries to get away with in their dealings with the "Third World." What thought project does the zombie myth sustain and participate in? How does it link our feelings about blacks, migrants, refugees, and the poor into a long-historical narrative of distancing and (pathologized) ontological difference
Complaint · Dehumanization · Denial · Distancing · Jungle · Phenomenon · Rumor · World trade center · Zombie · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
Haiti and the United States
Powers of Horror
Unparalleled Catastrophe for Our Species?
Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory
The Wretched of the Earth
Sylvia Wynter
Zones of Indistinction
Deconstructing the Portrayals of Haitian Women in the Media
Freedom Time
Voodoo, Zombies, and Mermaids
Infectious Rhythm
The Trouble with Zombies
Pedagogies of Crossing
Media in Disaster vs Media Disasters
Lights, Camera, War
Haiti
Soundscapes of Disaster and Humanitarianism
Venus in Two Acts
The Odd and the Ordinary
Speechless Emissaries
Necropolitics
African Modes of Self-Writing
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2019 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |