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Black heroes and heroines in cinema. Representations of Afro-American identities in the “Blaxploitation” movies

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Drozdowicz J.

Journal of Gender and Power

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2014

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vol. 2

59-72

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The cinematic genre of Blaxploitation is a significant example of how the popular culture influences certain identity patterns. In this case the this relation is being examined on the issue of contemporary Afro-American identities. This paper attempts to answer the question of the mechanism of identity construction in the context of new media, and cinema in particular. Thus the Blaxploitation movies are being regarded here as a phenomenon which is in large extent typical for other identity constructions in the context of a global cultural change occur-ring in the last decades in the West.

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Czarna przędza” Baudelaire’a

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Siwiec M.

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka

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2020

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issue 37

211-230

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The article shows Baudelaire’s poetry as a sign of both fascination and disgust with melancholy at the same time, which paradoxically results in an over-representation of melancholic images. Black yarn is the key image in the interpretation of Fleurs du mal presented here. Blackness appears as a sign of emptiness, of what is lost, as something interiorized and appropriated by a melancholic subject. The article proves that this emptiness and abysmal desolation in Baudelaire’s texts provide the substantive weight and that blackness becomes the materialization of melancholy and the matter of poetry at the same time, which leads us directly to a melancholic poetry par excellence.

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Othello-dor: Racialized Odor In and On Othello

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Steingass B.

Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance

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2020

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vol. 22

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issue 37

37-49

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For Shakespearean scholars, the subject of scent in his work has remained relatively lukewarm to discussion. Shakespeare’s use of smell is not only equal to that of his other senses, but smell’s uniquely historical record both on and off the stage illuminate his works in more ways than currently perceived. Shakespeare’s usage of smell is found throughout his works, and their importance on the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean stage present a playwright-director that was exceptionally in-tune with his audiences on the page and in person. Positioned at this culturally significant point in Shakespeare’s career, one work’s utilization of scent textually and theatrically fully explicates the importance of odor in a societal, racial, and domestic capacity: Othello. This article explores and establishes the importance of smell in relation to textual Othello, his “dyed in mummy” handkerchief, and Desdemona in the written tragedy. Additionally, it studies the heighted focus of smell in Othello on a metatheatric level for Shakespeare on his early modern stage, calling attention to the myriad of odors contained in and around his Renaissance theatre and the result effect this awareness would have had on his contemporary audiences in their experience of Othello as a uniquely smell-oriented show.

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1 Journal of Gender and Power

1 Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance

1 Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka

1 Drozdowicz J.

1 Siwiec M.

1 Steingass B.

2 2020

1 2014

Black heroes and heroines in cinema. Representations of Afro-American identities in the “Blaxploitation” movies

Czarna przędza” Baudelaire’a

Othello-dor: Racialized Odor In and On Othello