BLACK PANTHER and the Question of Black Atlantic Melancholy
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- This week’s episode will focus on the film Black Panther (directed by Ryan Coogler). It will be argued that the film illustrates a form of Black Atlantic melancholy that connects the Black diaspora to the continent of Africa in a particularly complex way. It will also be shown that the theme of nostalgia in the film also allows us to think of the different forms of African dispersal not just to the New World from the 16th to the 19th centuries, but also following decolonization in the middle of the twentieth century. All these waves of the African diaspora establish different relations of nostalgia to the continent so that it becomes productive to compare various depictions of the relationship between the two. Because of its immense success as a Marvel movie, Black Panther allows us to start thinking about these comparisons in a situated and productive way.
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Suggested Reading
Adélékè Adéeko, “Postcolonial Critique in Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther,” The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 7.2, Black Panther Special Issue, (2020): 136-146.
Ananya Jahanara Kabir, “Alegropolis: Wakanda and Black Panther’s Hall of Mirrors,” The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 7.2, Black Panther Special Issue, (2020): 121-135.
Dilip Menon, “Fifty Shades of Blackness: Recovering an Aesthetics of the Afrifuge,” The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 7.2, Black Panther Special Issue, (2020): 107-120.
Tolulope Akinwole, “Embodied Masculine Sovereignty, Reimagined Femininity: Implications of a Soyankaesque Reading of Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther,” The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 7.2, Black Panther Special Issue, (2020): 147-157.
Anne Anlin Cheng, The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route, (New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2007).
Paul Gilroy, Postcolonial Melancholia, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006).
Sigmund Freud, “Mourning and Melancholia,” The Standard Edition of the Complete Works of Sigmund Freud vol. XIV, trans. James Strachey, (London: Hogarth Press, 2014), 243-258.
Robin Cohen, Global Diasporas: An Introduction, 2nd edition, (London: Routledge, 2008).
Gabriel Sheffer, Diaspora Politics: At Home Abroad, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Stéphane Dufoix, Diasporas, (Berkeley: California University Press, 2008).
Ato Quayson and Girish Daswani, eds., Companion to Diaspora and Transnational Studies, (New York: Blackwell, 2013).
Thank you for this, Professor Quayson. I am teaching a class on Postcolonial Science Fictions this semester, and I'll definitely refer my students to this resource ahead of our discussion of Black Panther. The suggested readings are also an awesome addition!
Another masterpiece. I learnt a lot from this piece and like the inter-connections drawn in the various themes. Thanks Prof.
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Sir, could you do an episode on analyzing No Longer At Ease. Would be really helpful. Thank you!
Will think about it, Risalat. Not in my plans right now.
Enriched sir.....
You should be president of Ghana sir...lol
Hi Baffour, that is very ambitious of you on my behalf, but I don't think that I am the kind of person that Ghana needs. For a start I am always lost in my thoughts. But thanks for the sentiment.