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Glimpsing Shadows: Affective Witnessing in Noctambules and “Of Ghosts and Shadows”
‘I am watching my lover’, begins Roxane Gay’s short story ‘Of Ghosts and Shadows’. In the opening scene, Marie, and her lover Am elie idly browse through a marketplace in Haiti. Since the two of them cannot openly show affection, they watch each other instead. Sneaking glances and brushing limbs, they have developed an entire system for visual caress. Practices of looking shift into the realm of bodily touch. Close since they were children, the lovers have many shared experiences: ‘We watched our fathers taken away for supporting free elections, we watched our brothers disappear into the countryside or the ocean’. The ‘we’ of these statements underscores their deeply entwined and parallel lives. They are united in shared practices of looking—of bearing witness.
期刊介绍:
Founded in 1995, parallax has established an international reputation for bringing together outstanding new work in cultural studies, critical theory and philosophy. parallax publishes themed issues that aim to provoke exploratory, interdisciplinary thinking and response. Each issue of parallax provides a forum for a wide spectrum of perspectives on a topical question or concern. parallax will be of interest to those working in cultural studies, critical theory, cultural history, philosophy, gender studies, queer theory, post-colonial theory, English and comparative literature, aesthetics, art history and visual cultures.