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Viral virtual varicose Douglass inside the World Wide Web: or how to make a great black man invisible
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posted on 2023-06-09, 05:28 authored by Marcus WoodThe chapter explores the distortions and fictions which America’s memory industries have developed around Frederick Douglass. The sinister processes of valorization and matyrological fetishisation which have been used to disguise and efface American’s slave inheritance via a superscription of white patriarchal triumphalism jump out of this text as the lurid monstrosities they are. The demonstrates how an equal and opposite semiotics of distortion has also been catastrophically laid upon the cultural construction of Frederick Douglass. Douglass is dragged out of the virtual filth which threatens to turn him into slavery’s most tragic ‘oreo’
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Liverpool University PressPages
368.0Book title
Pictures and power: imaging and imagining Frederick Douglass (1818-2018)Place of publication
LiverpoolISBN
9781786940575Department affiliated with
- English Publications
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Celeste-Marie Berniere, Bill E LawsonLegacy Posted Date
2017-03-15Usage metrics
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