The Psychic Life of Horror
| Autor: | Eyo Ewara |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | Bodies That Still Matter ISBN: 9789048552504 Bodies That Still Matter |
| DOI: | 10.5117/9789463722940_ewara |
| Popis: | This essay explores how Julia Kristeva’s concept of abjection influences Judith Butler’s thinking about race and racism. I articulate how Butler presents racialized people as abjected in the formation of white subjectivity, but does not consider how abjection shapes the subjectivity of people of color subject to it. I argue that using abjection as a model for thinking about racialization in her work reifies the negative portrayal of people of color as abject and presents racism as a problem of white anxieties to be overcome instead of a problem of people of color’s harm that needs to be addressed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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