to divide, rather than unite, transecting as is often the case, existing ethnic, and class divisions (Cammaert forthcoming). And this is precisely what makes End FGM problematic—the allusion/ illusion that regardless of race, religion, class or any
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Digitizing the Western Gaze
The End FGM Guardian Global Media Campaign
Jessica Cammaert
Groped and Gutted
Hollywood's Hegemonic Reimagining of Counterculture
Samantha Eddy
's commitment to white-male authority. Molina-Guzman finds that Hollywood productions can be consumed by mixed-gender and mixed-race audiences for the purposes of maximum profit. Yet ultimately, the white-male imagination behind the screen leads to the
Scenes of Subjection
Slavery, the Black Female Body, and the Uses of Sexual Violence in Haile Gerima's Sankofa
Z'étoile Imma
and disruptive, in Sankofa sexual violence is shaped as a dehumanizing experience, a site of subjection, and yet nonetheless a motivation for enslaved Black women to imagine a life beyond the race/gender supremacy and sexual political economies that
Reviews
Tru Leverette and Barbara Mennel
Zélie Asava. Mixed Race Cinemas: Multiracial Dynamics in America and France (New York Bloomsbury, 2017). 216 pp., ISBN: 1501312456 (paperback: $35.96) Reviewed by Tru Leverette On the cusp of the twenty-first century, Danzy Senna
Before and After Ghostcatching
Animation, Primitivism, and the Choreography of Vitality
Heather Warren-Crow
arts, which embraced primitivism in an attempt to “exorcize the interiorized structures separating [European artists] from the authenticity of their own childhoods and of the childhood of their ‘race’” ( Leighten 2013: 60 ). 4 Primitivism in animation
The Self On-Screen
Pavel Pyś Reflects on The Body Electric
Pavel Pyś
shared engagement with the body and its mediated image, raising important questions about representation, especially in terms of identity, embodiment, race, gender, sexuality, class, and belonging. Like Alice disappearing through the mirror, these artists
Reimagining Frankenstein
Otherness, Responsibility, and Visions of Future Technologies in Ahmed Saadawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad and Jeanette Winterson's Frankissstein
Amal Al Shamsi
as related to gender and race, responsibility, as well as the future of humanity and literature. By analyzing their revisiting of the classic text, this article argues that in reviving a familiar story and embedding it with grimly accepted social
Editor's Introduction
Screening Transgression
Andrew J. Ball
impact of popular visual representations of Shelley's novel on contemporary works by Ahmed Saadawi and Jeanette Winterson, which emphasize concerns of otherness as related to gender and race, as well as anxieties about how the body is altered by
Editor's Outlook
Andrew J. Ball
and sexuality studies, and in critical race and ethnic studies. These many disciplinary and topical elements are elegantly assembled in this issue's special section entitled “Queer Sinofuturisms.” We are particularly excited to contribute to the
Redefining Representation
Black Trans and Queer Women’s Digital Media Production
Moya Bailey
health and social needs are addressed—unlike with other types of difference, such as race—the use of such hashtags as #girlslikeus allows for a network where this information can be dispensed, even with anonymity. In addition, transitioning “vlogs” or