This is your afterlife
Gender, Slavery, and Televisual Subjection
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4517283 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Haley (Department of Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 35-44 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women & Performance a journal of feminist theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0740-770X • E-ISSN: 1748-5819 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0740770x.2017.1282118 |
| OpenAlex | W2596793659 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
In 1957 Arries Ann Ward, who was formerly enslaved, appeared on the classic television interview-entertainment program, This Is Your Life. Despite Ward’s practices of refusal, the rare interview enacts an idealization of black female servitude and indebted obligation through performances of affection and racial benevolence. Ward’s appearance effectively works to resolve national crisis produced by widespread images of civil-rights protest and counterinsurgent violence, reifying discourses of American exceptionalism in Cold War context
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |