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7. Dancing with Death: Spike Lee’s Bamboozled

© 2019 Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick

© 2019 Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
  4. Introduction: “Do You Want to Be Well?” 1
  5. 1. 12 Years a What? Slavery, Representation, and Black Cultural Politics in 12 Years a Slave 17
  6. 2. The Fruit of Abolition: Discontinuity and Difference in Terrance Hayes’s “The Avocado” 39
  7. 3. Black Time: Slavery, Metaphysics, and the Logic of Wellness 55
  8. 4. The Inside-Turned-Out Architecture of the Post-Neo-Slave Narrative 69
  9. 5. Memwa se paswa: Sifting the Slave Past in Haiti 86
  10. 6. Staging Social Death: Alienation and Embodiment in Aishah Rahman’s Unfi nished Women 107
  11. 7. Dancing with Death: Spike Lee’s Bamboozled 125
  12. 8. Laughing to Keep from Crying: Dave Chappelle’s Self-Exploration with “The Nigger Pixie” 150
  13. 9. The Cartoonal Slave 168
  14. 10. Trauma and the Historical Turn in Black Literary Discourse 195
  15. Conclusion: Black Lives Matter, Except When They Don’t: Why Slavery’s Psychic Hold Matters 212
  16. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 221
  17. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 233
  18. INDEX 237
The Psychic Hold of Slavery
This chapter is in the book The Psychic Hold of Slavery
https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813583983-009

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
  4. Introduction: “Do You Want to Be Well?” 1
  5. 1. 12 Years a What? Slavery, Representation, and Black Cultural Politics in 12 Years a Slave 17
  6. 2. The Fruit of Abolition: Discontinuity and Difference in Terrance Hayes’s “The Avocado” 39
  7. 3. Black Time: Slavery, Metaphysics, and the Logic of Wellness 55
  8. 4. The Inside-Turned-Out Architecture of the Post-Neo-Slave Narrative 69
  9. 5. Memwa se paswa: Sifting the Slave Past in Haiti 86
  10. 6. Staging Social Death: Alienation and Embodiment in Aishah Rahman’s Unfi nished Women 107
  11. 7. Dancing with Death: Spike Lee’s Bamboozled 125
  12. 8. Laughing to Keep from Crying: Dave Chappelle’s Self-Exploration with “The Nigger Pixie” 150
  13. 9. The Cartoonal Slave 168
  14. 10. Trauma and the Historical Turn in Black Literary Discourse 195
  15. Conclusion: Black Lives Matter, Except When They Don’t: Why Slavery’s Psychic Hold Matters 212
  16. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 221
  17. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 233
  18. INDEX 237
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