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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 130–139.
Published: 01 October 2022
... that the mouth is “the most important of all human features for the grotesque,” this article examines the disparities between different renderings of these ontological black holes and their disparate implications in horror and g/Gothic texts. While the Scream visualizes terror's sonic expression, this article...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 28–43.
Published: 01 April 2023
... historical formations of blues aesthetics in order to address Black women in the horror genre; constructions of gender, aesthetic, and sonic mapping that exists in the music video form; and the spiritual ontology of nostalgia. Chiefly, this playlist highlights the pioneering art of Missy Elliott across...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 162–182.
Published: 01 October 2022
... of camaraderie and intellectual curiosity, contributors consider meanings of the Afro‐Gothic from various disciplines and diasporic perspectives. The participants discuss the ways in which horror, haunting, the uncanny, the monstrous, and the fantastic are manifest in black aesthetics and, in doing so...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 88–117.
Published: 01 October 2022
... persistently foreground the melancholy possibilities and pleasures that our collective entanglements with black after/other/lives affords. This study of the macabre aesthetic as it manifests in latter‐day memento mori sharpens our awareness of the proximity of horror and romance. In doing so it provides us...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 38–59.
Published: 01 October 2022
...,” a villainous plot to tamper with a water supply, the Flint Water Crisis has directly affected a mostly African American population where 45 percent of the city's residents are living below the poverty line. Thus, flowing through these aquatic spaces are black geological extractions of horror and dehumanization...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 16–35.
Published: 01 October 2022
..., discarded without end. 6 To reckon with this horror in the face of the impasse reached when attempting to wrest a phenomenological account or mimetic representation of black living in and through perpetual black dying, we issue a ghastly account of black unbelonging . Black unbelonging is the calculated...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 62–85.
Published: 01 October 2022
... in African diasporic writing's contemplations of black life in the present. In terms of genre, James's traffic in horror makes it clear that his generic modus operandi is the Gothic. In what follows, I demonstrate how thinking through some of the Gothic tropes in James's writing—excessive violence...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 120–127.
Published: 01 October 2022
... and black men living in a similarly perilous fashion and, as a result, emphasizes the cyclical nature of pain and horror. Shrines (2020) is an arresting album, suffused with Afro-Gothic imagery throughout. That haunting begins with billy woods's opening salvo on the first track, “Bitter Cassava...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 4–13.
Published: 01 October 2022
... for papers for this issue, we noted the surge in recent years of black artistic and cultural work—and most important, everyday experiences—that shifted collective imaginaries around horror ( Get Out , Jordan Peele, 2017), the h(a)unted (Ahmaud Arbery), the “monstrous” (Michael Brown), the uncanny (Childish...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 84–101.
Published: 01 April 2024
... that permits us to appreciate and recognize the labor involved in putting blackness to work. 4 Making labor legible as constitutive of form—and, relatedly, making blackness legible as art 5 —is a project of the sci-fi horror film Nope (Jordan Peele, 2022) and its investigation of American film...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 142–159.
Published: 01 October 2022
..., and they know it. AJM: There's a paradox of how you depict the Bronx in your work as a community and a place of terror, horror, and tragedy, particularly for its Black and Brown inhabitants. How does this contradiction inform your work? DMP: I embrace the paradox, not because it's easy...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 63–73.
Published: 01 April 2021
... thinking, Barca Nostra 's spectacularly disturbing presence at the heart of art-world capitalism and its laissez-faire attitude to Black life and death does something more than remind us of horror and inequality. Read within the context of the black aquatic, Barca Nostra opens up the conversation about...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 4–24.
Published: 01 April 2023
... in her musical cinema. Moore follows on recent insights from Black feminist work, including that of The Lemonade Reader , as she curates an analytical playlist for reading Elliott's tactics of suspending pornotropic mediation. These gestures use horror aesthetics to refute antiqueer projection...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 48–59.
Published: 01 October 2023
... than a form; the desire to engage with the “conceptual tyrannies” (“preoccupations,” “concerns”) that have informed Black cinema, so as to define a new spatiotemporal logic of the image. 2 In this respect, digitopia is not bound to a utopian subject matter, nor is it strictly a matter...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 78–97.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Daren Fowler Abstract Black transness has been marked and made broken by necropolitical systems of power. Theories and politics of and for black trans women have often prioritized a rejection of or confrontation with this “state of brokenness,” as poet Nat Raha terms it. Visual artist Tourmaline...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 24–43.
Published: 01 April 2024
... in the country. Not only do they call attention to the formal aspects of this brutality, but they reveal (post)colonial terror's de-formation of language to explain these horrors. They move toward and against the common sense reductive conceptualization of the “black dancing body” as the quintessence of natural...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 140–165.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., and the fumes overwhelmed him. His scattered friends found Pliny's body three days later, dressed as they remembered him. 14 Works Cited Bernal Martin . Black Athena: The Afro-Asiatic Roots of Classical Civilization . 3 vols. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press , 1987–2006...
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