“Flesh Like One’s Own”: Benign Denials of Legitimate Complaint
This essay looks pointedly at a broad phenomenon wherein ostensibly benign discourses—from the news media to the Hollywood film industry to humanitarian aid—grant permission for North Atlantic denial of human proximity to peoples of the so-called global South. Taking the figure of the (Haitian) zomb...
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crdukeunivpr:10.1215/08992363-3749045 2024-06-02T08:11:19+00:00 “Flesh Like One’s Own”: Benign Denials of Legitimate Complaint Glover, Kaiama L. 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3749045 https://read.dukeupress.edu/public-culture/article-pdf/29/2%20(82)/235/455594/0290235.pdf en eng Duke University Press Public Culture volume 29, issue 2, page 235-260 ISSN 0899-2363 1527-8018 journal-article 2017 crdukeunivpr https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3749045 2024-05-07T13:16:20Z This essay looks pointedly at a broad phenomenon wherein ostensibly benign discourses—from the news media to the Hollywood film industry to humanitarian aid—grant permission for North Atlantic denial of human proximity to peoples of the so-called global South. Taking the figure of the (Haitian) zombie as pivot point, the essay reflects on the continuity between dehumanized discursive and visual representations of (postearthquake) Haitians, sub-Saharan Africans, and other immiserated “others.” In question is what exactly the contemporary zombie allows “First World” citizenries to get away with in their dealings with the “Third World.” What thought project does the zombie myth sustain and participate in? How does it link our feelings about blacks, migrants, refugees, and the poor into a long-historical narrative of distancing and (pathologized) ontological difference? Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Duke University Press Pivot ENVELOPE(-30.239,-30.239,-80.667,-80.667) Public Culture 29 2 235 260 |
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This essay looks pointedly at a broad phenomenon wherein ostensibly benign discourses—from the news media to the Hollywood film industry to humanitarian aid—grant permission for North Atlantic denial of human proximity to peoples of the so-called global South. Taking the figure of the (Haitian) zombie as pivot point, the essay reflects on the continuity between dehumanized discursive and visual representations of (postearthquake) Haitians, sub-Saharan Africans, and other immiserated “others.” In question is what exactly the contemporary zombie allows “First World” citizenries to get away with in their dealings with the “Third World.” What thought project does the zombie myth sustain and participate in? How does it link our feelings about blacks, migrants, refugees, and the poor into a long-historical narrative of distancing and (pathologized) ontological difference? |
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