The Black Gay Male Image under Siege

This essay discusses Isaac Julien's film alongside 1980s Black British political culture, in which visual culture played a significant part. Focusing on the role of the image in that time and place, the article reads the embodied performances of waiting, use of the montage, and constructed scen...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:GLQ 2024-10, Vol.30 (4), p.567-575
Main Author: Bost, Darius
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Black people
Black politics
Cultural Studies
Gender and Sexuality
Homosexuality
LGBTQ Studies
Mass media images
Political culture
Queer Theory
Theory and Philosophy
Time
Citations: Items that this one cites
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:This essay discusses Isaac Julien's film alongside 1980s Black British political culture, in which visual culture played a significant part. Focusing on the role of the image in that time and place, the article reads the embodied performances of waiting, use of the montage, and constructed scenes of Black queer lifeworlds, past and present, as challenging the linear modes of temporality that have confined Black politics to a perpetual state of deferment and the modern notion of vision under which the Black gay male image remains under siege.
ISSN:1064-2684
1527-9375
DOI:10.1215/10642684-11331002