Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4577460 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kelli Weston (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 289-295 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Gender and Sexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1524-0657 • E-ISSN: 1940-9206 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15240657.2022.2133519 |
| OpenAlex | W4321450165 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 9 |
The author traces the Gothic origins and themes in Jordan Peele’s film Us (2019) to slave narratives and Female Gothic fiction. Reflecting on the ancestral implications of these connections, she focuses on diegetic spectatorship through the lens of W. E. B. Du Bois’s “double-consciousness” and his conception of the “veil.” The author considers the film’s dramatic performance of traumatized Black looking relations and their psychic consequences, appropriately and grotesquely exaggerated by the genre, but fundamentally authentic. As the film demonstrates, this fraught spectatorship engenders a self-estrangement
Aesthetics · Art · Consciousness · Double consciousness · Epistemology · Girl · Literature · Narrative · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
Whither Abolition
Mother's Milk and Sister's Blood
Genres of Human
African American History
Framing the Black Soldier
Ida B. Wells and the Shadow Archive
Sylvia Wynter
Beyond Distinctions
Taxonomy of an Enslaved Heart
Incommensurate Labors
Publishing as pedagogy
Female Slaves
A framework for Black feminist school leadership
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2025 (43) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |