Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations

ISBN-13: 9780415389587 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 320 str.

USA) hooks bell (Berea College

Opis

According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks' electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As hooks herself notes, interrogations of popular culture can be a 'powerful site for intervention, challenge and change'. And intervene, challenge and change is what hooks does best.

Recenzje

'The reader discovers ... that bell hooks is a joy to read, her work a nimbly written hybrid form of social commentary, by turns personal, political, and in-your-face.' - San Francisco Chronicle Examiner

'Outlaw Culture should be read, regardless of whether one agrees with feminism as presented by hooks. hooks raises critical issues that all should find engaging as well as challenging!' - Real African World, Bridgitt Mwamini Robertson

'She brings to the task of cultural criticism an astute eye and a courageous spirit ... Hers is a voice that forces us to confront the political undercurrents of life in America.' - New York Times Book Review

'hooks' style is refreshingly brash and accessible and often inflected by personal experience. Readers may contest her politics, yet few will be unmoved by the spirit that animates these essays; a desire to rethink cultural institutions that sustain racism, sexism, and other systems of political oppression.' - Publishers' Weekly

Spis treści

Introduction: The Heartbeat of Cultural Revolution  1. Power to the Pussy - We Don't Wannabe Dicks in Drag  2. Altars of Sacrifice - Re-Membering Basquiat  3. What's Passion Got to Do with It ? An Interview with Marie-France Alderman  4. Seduction and Betrayal - The Crying Game Meets The Bodyguard  5. Censorship from Left and Right  6. Talking Sex - Beyond the Patriarchal Phallic Imaginary  7. Camille Paglia - 'Black' Pagan or White Colonizer  8. Dissident Heat - Fire with Fire  9. Katie Roiphe - A Little Feminist Excess Goes a Long Way  10. Seduced by Violence No More  11. Gangsta Culture - Sexism and Misogyny - Who Will Take the Rap  12. Ice Cube Culture - A Shared Passion for Speaking Truth  13. Spending Culture - Marketing the Black Underclass  14. Spike Lee Doing Malcolm X - Denying Black Pain  15. Seeing and Making Culture - Representing the Poor  16. Back to Black - Ending Internalized Racism  17. Malcolm X - The Longed-For Feminist Manhood  18. Columbus - Gone but Not Forgotten  19. Moving into and beyond Feminism - Just for the Joy of It  20. Love as the Practice of Freedom

O autorze

bell hooks (b. 1951) is mainly known as a feminist thinker, although her writings cover a broad range of topics on gender, race, teaching and the significance of media for contemporary culture. She is Distinguished Professor of English at City College in New York.