I think it's a question of how one imagines America, and thus where one can find space to see oneself. Comic books and early film have a lot in common, and it can be unsettling just how navigating identity worked. Groucho remarked that America was a wonderful place, how else could his brother become Italian while hanging around him and Harpo?
Read some of the writings from the Harlem Renaissance and...
It's complicated and you don't even need to see Casius Clay being amazed at the pilots (rumble in the jungle, Ali vs Foreman, sorry that I'm spacing which African nation was the venue) decades later.
A history denied is a history that's going to bite coming and going.
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Re: Well...
Date: 2014-05-16 05:20 am (UTC)Read some of the writings from the Harlem Renaissance and...
It's complicated and you don't even need to see Casius Clay being amazed at the pilots (rumble in the jungle, Ali vs Foreman, sorry that I'm spacing which African nation was the venue) decades later.
A history denied is a history that's going to bite coming and going.