Author: Gwendolyn Audrey FosterPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791441565
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Examines the film industry's fascination with bondage and captivity.
Captive Bodies
Author: Gwendolyn Audrey FosterPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791441565
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Examines the film industry's fascination with bondage and captivity.
Captive Bodies
Author: Gwendolyn Audrey FosterPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438403062
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Captive Bodies examines the film industry's fascination with bondage and captivity, seeking to revisualize American cinema through the lens of critical discourse on captivity narratives, slave narratives, and postcolonial critiques of cinematic constructions of "whiteness," "blackness," gender, and sexuality. Captivity is also examined here in relation to both those in front and behind the camera. Are we "subject" to others? Are we "bound" and "captive" in images? Are we "captive" bodies and "captive" audiences, held hostage to the spectacles of voyeuristic pleasure? Are those behind the camera involved in a process not unlike that of the slave system, enslaving the body in the image? To answer these and other questions, Captive Bodies draws upon a wide range of critical methodologies, including postcolonial studies, feminist film criticism, anthropology, and phenomenology.
Captive Bodies
Author: Mary Ruth MarottePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
While classifying the pregnant condition as a state of captivity might elicit negative connotations, Marotte underscores how American women writers have envisioned the condition of captivity as one in which the pregnant woman can realize, perhaps even find power in, a challenging and disturbing loss of subjectivity. In Captive Bodies, Marotte explores the use of the term "captive," locating in it a multivalent meaning. To be captive in pregnancy is to reach a kind of sublime, a rapturous experience that has both negative and positive effects on the experiencing subject. In working with both primary and theoretical texts, Marotte reveals a genre of "pregnancy literature" that will validate this subject as one worthy of continued intellectual study and critical attention.
The Captive's Position
Author: Teresa ToulousePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081223958X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
In this book, the author argues for a new interpretation of the captivity narrative - one that takes into account the profound shifts in political and social authority and legitimacy that occurred in New England at the end of the 17th century.
Captive Genders
Author: Nat SmithPublisher: AK Press
ISBN: 184935071X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This collection represents years of struggle in both transgender, gender variant, and queer liberation movements, and the movement against the prison industrial complex. The first of its kind, not simply a bridge, but a space for discourse about the linkages between these struggles. A vital look at how gender and sexuality are lived under the crushing weight of corporal captivity.
Captive Bodies, Free Spirits
Author: William J. EvittsPublisher: Julian Messner
ISBN: 9780671540944
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Traces the history of slavery in the United States from the seventeenth century through the Civil War in 1865 when the institution of slavery was finally abolished.
The Anti-Black City
Author: Jaime Amparo AlvesPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452956030
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo’s favelas revealing the widespread use of race-based police repression in Brazil While Black Lives Matter still resonates in the United States, the movement has also become a potent rallying call worldwide, with harsh police tactics and repressive state policies often breaking racial lines. In The Anti-Black City, Jaime Amparo Alves delves into the dynamics of racial violence in Brazil, where poverty, unemployment, residential segregation, and a biased criminal justice system create urban conditions of racial precarity. The Anti-Black City provocatively offers race as a vital new lens through which to view violence and marginalization in the supposedly “raceless” São Paulo. Ironically, in a context in which racial ambiguity makes it difficult to identify who is black and who is white, racialized access to opportunities and violent police tactics establish hard racial boundaries through subjugation and death. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in prisons and neighborhoods on the periphery of this mega-city, Alves documents the brutality of police tactics and the complexity of responses deployed by black residents, including self-help initiatives, public campaigns against police violence, ruthless gangs, and self-policing of communities. The Anti-Black City reveals the violent and racist ideologies that underlie state fantasies of order and urban peace in modern Brazil. Illustrating how “governing through death” has become the dominant means for managing and controlling ethnic populations in the neoliberal state, Alves shows that these tactics only lead to more marginalization, criminality, and violence. Ultimately, Alves’s work points to a need for a new approach to an intractable problem: how to govern populations and territories historically seen as “ungovernable.”
Captive
Author: Emily VancePublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493184008
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
"Thrown into life in a strange city, Mati, a young village girl, finds herself trapped in a battle between two empires, one thirsting for blood, the other for gold. With nothing to gain from this war, she must fight to survive so that she can escape the city with her life. The longer she stays, the more she learns about a world she knew nothing of. Life is driven by death, and death is driven by the gods. But when the gods are taken away, all that is left is humanities' fight for salvation. Only, for Mati, that salvation must be found in the shadows of an enemy's crumbling empire"--Page 4 of cover.
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