Josephine Baker: psychoanalysis and the colonial fetish |
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Authors: | Cheng Anne Anlin |
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Institution: | Department of English, University of California, Berkeley 94720-1030, USA. anneacheng@gmail.com |
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Abstract: | This paper traces an intricate path connecting racial fantasy, aesthetic judgment, and the larger cultural problem of inter-subjective recognition. In particular, the author examines the theme of fetishism, both sexual and racial, in a Western historical, colonial context, in order to unravel a set of disturbances that cohere around the racial fetish then and now. Taking the figure of an entertainment icon of the 1920s, Josephine Baker, as a case study, the author shows how the imagination of the colonizing white male was both articulated and disrupted by Baker as a ready-made representation of the cultural, racial, and sexual other. |
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