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Queering Masculinities in Language and CultureUndoing Black Masculinity: Isaac Julien’s Alternative Grammar of Visual Representation

Queering Masculinities in Language and Culture: Undoing Black Masculinity: Isaac Julien’s... [Through a semiotic approach partly drawing on the work on multimodality by Kress and van Leeuwen and strongly influenced by the theoretical tradition of the Caribbean diaspora, this chapter proposes a new reading of Isaac Julien’s iconic film Looking for Langston (1989). Complemented by references to film theory and the studies on masculinity, it will explore Julien’s re-articulation of the socio-culturally constructed and historically contingent concept of “black masculinity”. By hybridising the visual (so prominent in Western epistemological tradition) with the senses of hearing and touch, Julien disrupts Western culturally produced regularities (or “grammar”) in order to propose alternative ways of seeing based on a fluid conception of identity and sexuality. As a result he traces a more ambiguous, almost vulnerable, “black masculinity”, thus deprived of its mask of apparent strength and aggressiveness.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Queering Masculinities in Language and CultureUndoing Black Masculinity: Isaac Julien’s Alternative Grammar of Visual Representation

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality Book Series
Editors: Baker, Paul; Balirano, Giuseppe
Amideo, Emilio
Queering Masculinities in Language and Culture — Dec 9, 2017
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Palgrave Macmillan UK
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978-1-349-95326-4
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195 –224
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10.1057/978-1-349-95327-1_10
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Abstract

[Through a semiotic approach partly drawing on the work on multimodality by Kress and van Leeuwen and strongly influenced by the theoretical tradition of the Caribbean diaspora, this chapter proposes a new reading of Isaac Julien’s iconic film Looking for Langston (1989). Complemented by references to film theory and the studies on masculinity, it will explore Julien’s re-articulation of the socio-culturally constructed and historically contingent concept of “black masculinity”. By hybridising the visual (so prominent in Western epistemological tradition) with the senses of hearing and touch, Julien disrupts Western culturally produced regularities (or “grammar”) in order to propose alternative ways of seeing based on a fluid conception of identity and sexuality. As a result he traces a more ambiguous, almost vulnerable, “black masculinity”, thus deprived of its mask of apparent strength and aggressiveness.]

Published: Dec 9, 2017

Keywords: Black Masculinity; Alternative Grammars; Black Queer; Mapplethorpe; stereotypesStereotypes

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