“白色的黑暗”

IF 0.2 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Elliot Evans
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摘要本文并不认为原始主义的现代主义美学是单一的,而是认为原始主义项目是多种多样的。每一个都有其历史背景,本文通过发表的写作、日记和1948年至1953年间拍摄的电影片段,思考了乌克兰出生的美国先锋派电影制作人玛雅·德伦在海地的原始主义投资。德仁的作品必须与美帝国主义和对海地的占领(1915-34)联系起来理解。这也得益于她复杂的现代主义美学、托洛茨基主义政治以及通过与编舞家和人类学家凯瑟琳·邓纳姆的交往而接近新黑人运动。尽管她在海地的电影有着清晰的现代主义愿景,但当面对海地本身的物质现实时,德伦放弃了她的电影,转而选择了一部书面的“个人民族志”。本文认为,在殖民地民族志电影的背景下,德伦对电影的拒绝以及她审美凝视的断裂,被框定为拒绝操纵现实。最后,它考虑了西方帝国主义和偷窥主义的遗产和抵抗,以及2009年以后在太子港举行的盖托双年展的政策。
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THE “WHITE DARKNESS”
Abstract Rather than considering the modernist aesthetic of primitivism as singular, this article contends that there are multiple and diverse primitivist projects. Each of these speaks to its historical context, and this article considers that of the Ukrainian-born, American avant-garde film-maker Maya Deren’s primitivist investments in Haiti through her published writing, diary entries and her film footage produced between 1948 and 1953. Deren’s work must be understood in relation to US imperialism and the occupation of Haiti (1915–34). It is also informed by her complex modernist aesthetics, Trotskyist politics and proximity to the New Negro movement through her association with choreographer and anthropologist Katherine Dunham. Despite a clearly articulated modernist vision for her film in Haiti, when confronted with the material reality of Haiti itself Deren abandoned her film in favour of a written “personal ethnography.” This article considers Deren’s refusal of film and the fracturing of her aesthetic gaze, framed as a refusal to manipulate reality, in the context of colonial ethnographic film. Finally, it considers the legacy of – and resistance to – Western imperialism and voyeurism informing Haitian artistic works today, as well as the policies of the Geto Byenal (Ghetto Biennale), held in Port-au-Prince from 2009 onwards.
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ANGELAKI-JOURNAL OF THE THEORETICAL HUMANITIES
ANGELAKI-JOURNAL OF THE THEORETICAL HUMANITIES HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
CiteScore
0.60
自引率
33.30%
发文量
57
期刊介绍: Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities was established in September 1993 to provide an international forum for vanguard work in the theoretical humanities. In itself a contentious category, "theoretical humanities" represents the productive nexus of work in the disciplinary fields of literary criticism and theory, philosophy, and cultural studies. The journal is dedicated to the refreshing of intellectual coordinates, and to the challenging and vivifying process of re-thinking. Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities encourages a critical engagement with theory in terms of disciplinary development and intellectual and political usefulness, the inquiry into and articulation of culture.
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