Lynching Affect
Irresistible Identification, Sadism, and White Femininity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6445333 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patrice D Douglas (corresponding author), Patrice D Douglass (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 51-60 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1462-317X • E-ISSN: 1743-1719 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1462317x.2023.2281818 |
| OpenAlex | W4388808551 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Examining representation in the work of David Marriott, this essay engages the role affect plays in mediating the negrophobic and negrophilic effects of lynching. By specifically taking up Marriott’s discussion of lynching alongside his elaborations of racial fetishism , this essay considers how the desire for lactification is (re)produced through the Black male’s confrontation with racial terror as disembodiment. The personal narratives of lynching survivor James Cameronare revisited in curious correlation with an interview reaction to the film Get Out (2017) given by a Black male movie goer. The central concern here is to critically mediate how the movie goer, who does not witness a lynching , upon exiting the theatre reproduces a similar affect to Cameron . Engaging racial fetishism as elaborated by Marriott through the work of Frantz Fanon exposes how one can be captured by a cultural fantasy that is passed down without a sustained referent
Affect (linguistics · Art · Emancipation · Fantasy · Femininity · Fetishism · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · White (mutation · Witness · American Political and Social Dynamics · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |