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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 62–85.
Published: 01 October 2022
... of James's novels to the generic elements this violence engages, the essay argues that James's engagement with the Gothic better accounts for these two novels’ attention to issues of excessive violence, doubling, and feminine abjection and the way they perform a metafictional critique of the notion...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 130–139.
Published: 01 October 2022
... introduces it alongside what I call the Swallowing: the occasion where the object of fear (the monster) takes the form of a devouring other. A challenge to essentialist interpretations of Julia Kristeva's concept of abjection, analysis of the Swallowing lends support to Jack Halberstam's estimation...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 120–127.
Published: 01 October 2022
... debut solo album, Mr. Scarface Is Back , in 1991, and he extends the themes of the Geto Boys’ music through hyperviolent scenes of abject destruction, rampant misogyny, and horror movie–style murder. Following the cruelty of the song “Your Ass Got Took,” with its horrifying imagery and upbeat funky...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 4–13.
Published: 01 October 2022
..., the uncanny, and female abjection, Harrison identifies queerness as a site of disruption and regeneration. By focusing our attention on James's ending his novels with a woman as the proverbial “last man standing,” Harrison subverts the notion of the feminine abject as the Gothic trope associated...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 88–117.
Published: 01 October 2022
....” The twinned experience of dread and delight that structures Jafa's understanding of black life emerges in his theory of the abject sublime. “So the abject sublime to me is just basically a codification of this idea,” he says, “that inside of the black worldview, black being, the black continuum, it's...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 98–117.
Published: 01 April 2022
... and neck, requires breath to be drawn deep within subjectivities grooving beyond power's clutch. The composer turns us to the vibration of abject blackness that oscillates at the foundation of the present, still aspirative in its torn status (away from the human and the state). Eastman's theory of the base...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 162–182.
Published: 01 October 2022
... of aesthetics. There are a couple of ways that we've been thinking about Afro-Gothic aesthetics in the issue. For my essay, for example, I've been spending time thinking about Arthur Jafa's theory on black aesthetics. He's got this notion of the abject sublime—that what's magnificent about blackness and what's...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 75–83.
Published: 01 October 2021
... about black monochrome architecture. She writes: You might have a love-hate relationship with black. It is the ultimate code-switcher. Asserting abject humility or the pretentions of power—sometimes concurrently—black is a brilliant communicator of values. It has always been this way. Whether...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 140–165.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., it is a type of forbidden desire. The pagan body, only nominally forbidden to Christian theology, was to generate complex and generative passions all its own in early modern Europe. The history of the flirtation with such forbidden desires, inspired by such abject and forbidden sculptural bodies, seems...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 6–31.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., and behaviors of the alienated black subject, and particularly his “Urinal” ( Fountain , 1917)—which put abject black matter on (virtual) display—that reset the black object in motion. “Black art in motion” invites a reevaluation of the relationship between subject and object movement that not only blurs...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 50–83.
Published: 01 April 2022
... in psychoanalytics ” that “exposes the gaps that psychoanalytic theories awaken,” looking to the ontologies that emerge when the split Lacanian subject comes into contact with pleasure alongside the fungible and abject objectivity imposed on blackness (as it affects the totality of colonized environments). 11 I...
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