James Baldwin's embodied absence: I Am Not Your Negro and filmic corporeality

dc.date.accessioned2021-11-11T15:42:46Z
dc.date.available2021-11-11T15:42:46Z
dc.date.issued2020-06-18
dc.date.updated2021-11-11T15:34:03Z
dc.description.abstractAs an essay on North American history and on the rift between lived experience and ideological images that obfuscate it, I Am Not Your Negro relies on a key motif: the body. I argue that I Am Not Your Negroâ s engagement with Baldwinâ s ideas on the question of Black bodies and their effacement from American history, media, and society becomes the kernel of the filmâ s narrative and discursive strategy. As a documentary, I Am Not Your Negro carries out a historical/biographical work of testimony and assemblage, and is a vehicle for Baldwinâ s ideas; as an essay, it suggests a corporeal fullness to Baldwinâ s textual fragments by giving them a filmic voice. Located between reality and imaginary, present and past, substance and image, the essayistic constitutes itself through voiceover as an embodied absence that carries the weight of the argument in its filmic flesh.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationRascaroli, L. (2020) 'James Baldwin's embodied absence: I Am Not Your Negro and filmic corporeality', in Baron, J. and Fuhs, K. (eds.) I Am Not Your Negro: A Docalogue. New York: Routledge, pp. 24-37. doi: 10.4324/9780429058301-3en
dc.identifier.doi10.4324/9780429058301-3en
dc.identifier.endpage37en
dc.identifier.isbn9780367178949
dc.identifier.startpage24en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/12200
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.ispartofI Am Not Your Negro: A Docalogue
dc.relation.urihttps://www.routledge.com/I-Am-Not-Your-Negro-A-Docalogue/Baron-Fuhs/p/book/9780367178949
dc.rights© 2021, the Author. Published by Routledge. All rights reserved.en
dc.subjectThe bodyen
dc.subjectI Am Not Your Negroen
dc.subjectAmerican historyen
dc.subjectJames Baldwinen
dc.titleJames Baldwin's embodied absence: I Am Not Your Negro and filmic corporealityen
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