- 352 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Welcome to the Jungle brings a black British perspective to the critical reading of a wide range of cultural texts, events and experiences arising from volatile transformations in the politics of ethnicity, sexuality and "race" during the 1980s. The ten essays collected here examine new forms of cultural expression in black film, photography and visual art exerging with a new generation of black British artists, and interprets this prolific creativity within a sociological framework that reveals fresh perspectives on the bewildering complexity of identity and diversity in an era of postmodernity. Kobena Mercer documents a wealth of insights opened up by the overlapping of Asian, African and Caribbean cultures that constitute Black Britain as a unique domain of diaspora.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Black Britain and the Cultural Politics of Diaspora
- 1. Monster Metaphors: Notes on Michael Jackson’s Thriller
- 2. Diaspora Culture and the Dialogic Imagination: The Aesthetics of Black Independent Film in Britain
- 3. Recoding Narratives of Race and Nation
- 4. Black Hair/Style Politics
- 5. Black Masculinity and the Sexual Politics of Race
- 6. Reading Racial Fetishism: The Photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe
- 7. Dark & Lovely: Black Gay Image-Making
- 8. Black Art and the Burden of Representation
- 9. Welcome to the Jungle: Identity and Diversity in Postmodern Politics
- 10. “1968”: Periodizing Politics and Identity
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index