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On Black Men / David Marriott.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2000Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748610167
  • 9781474470704
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.38/896073 21
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- I 'I'm gonna borrer me a Kodak': Photography and Lynching -- II 'Murderous Appetites': Photography and Fantasy -- III Black Types -- IV Frantz Fanon's War -- V Father Stories -- Afterword: Either/Or -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary: GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748610167);Mutilated, dying or dead, black men play a role in the psychic life of culture. From national dreams to media fantasies, from sensual intimacy to outpourings of murderous violence, there is a persistent imagining of what black men must be, a demand that black men perform a script, become interchangeable with the uncanny, deeply unsettling, projections of culture.This powerful and compelling study explores the legacy of that role, particularly its violent effect on how black men have learned to see themselves and one another. David Marriott draws upon a range of examples, from lynching photographs to recent Hollywood films, as well as the ideas of key thinkers including Frantz Fanon, Richard Wright, James Baldwin and John Edgar Wideman, to reveal a vicious pantomime of unvarying reification and compulsive fascination, of whites taking a look at themselves through images of black desolation, and of blacks intimately dispossessed by that self-same looking.On Black Men is a bold and original exploration of what it means to be black and male in contemporary Europe and America."
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- I 'I'm gonna borrer me a Kodak': Photography and Lynching -- II 'Murderous Appetites': Photography and Fantasy -- III Black Types -- IV Frantz Fanon's War -- V Father Stories -- Afterword: Either/Or -- Works Cited -- Index

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748610167);Mutilated, dying or dead, black men play a role in the psychic life of culture. From national dreams to media fantasies, from sensual intimacy to outpourings of murderous violence, there is a persistent imagining of what black men must be, a demand that black men perform a script, become interchangeable with the uncanny, deeply unsettling, projections of culture.This powerful and compelling study explores the legacy of that role, particularly its violent effect on how black men have learned to see themselves and one another. David Marriott draws upon a range of examples, from lynching photographs to recent Hollywood films, as well as the ideas of key thinkers including Frantz Fanon, Richard Wright, James Baldwin and John Edgar Wideman, to reveal a vicious pantomime of unvarying reification and compulsive fascination, of whites taking a look at themselves through images of black desolation, and of blacks intimately dispossessed by that self-same looking.On Black Men is a bold and original exploration of what it means to be black and male in contemporary Europe and America."

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)