Black and Yellow Power: The Intersections of Identity Politics and Literary Study
Watkins, Rychetta N.
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Description
Title
Black and Yellow Power: The Intersections of Identity Politics and Literary Study
Author(s)
Watkins, Rychetta N.
Issue Date
2005
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Parker, Robert Dale
Department of Study
English
Discipline
English
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
Language
eng
Abstract
"For example, the first chapter, ""Who('s)(e) Fanon: Black and Yellow Power and American Appropriations of Colonialism,"" decodes academic and political appropriations of Fanon and repositions him as a node for Black and Asian American ideological cooperation. These appropriations of colonialism through Fanon led to the development of what I call the ""guerilla aesthetic."" This guerilla posture or relationship to American colonialism, proved useful as a location for launching political and social critiques of American culture. While this position was first thought of as a political one, the figure of the armed, guerilla fighter soon came to denote a generalized antagonistic relationship towards American society signified by changes in dress, hair, and other cultural practices. This slippage, I argue, is a result of conflations of revolutionary and cultural nationalism which eventually stripped the figure of its ideological and political specificity, leaving this counter-hegemonic identity open to cooptation."
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