In the critical essays collected in Black Looks, bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, black subjectivity, and whiteness. Her focus is on spectatorship-in particular, the way blackness and black people are experienced in literature, music, television, and especially film-and her aim is to create a radical intervention into the way we talk about race and representation. As she describes: "e;the essays in Black Looks are meant to challenge and unsettle, to disrupt and subvert."e; As students, scholars, activists, intellectuals, and any other readers who have engaged with the book since its original release in 1992 can attest, that's exactly what these pieces do.
ISBN: | 9781317588498 |
Publication date: | 10th October 2014 |
Author: | hooks, bell |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
Format: | Ebook |