The issue of race is the focus of Oates’novel Because It Is Bitter,and Because It Is My Heart.The racial identity metaphors in the photos in the novels show the characteristics of racial ideology.This paper argues th...The issue of race is the focus of Oates’novel Because It Is Bitter,and Because It Is My Heart.The racial identity metaphors in the photos in the novels show the characteristics of racial ideology.This paper argues that photographs are no longer used as external cultural metaphors,but as invisible references to racial prejudice and racial contradictions.This article re-examines Oates’racial issue writing in the form of visual narratives and considers the ambivalence of the dual identities and double consciousness of blacks in New York City in the late 1950s from the visual ethical interpretation of black identity awareness,and the perception of cruelty and violence of social inequality.The historical limitations of the harsh reality of racism make a critical intervention in visual ethics.展开更多
This work argues that Denmark Vesey,Nat Turner,Gabriel Prosser,David Walker,Henry Highland Garnet,amongst a few others were the reactionary(dialectical)exceptions to the black church,not the norm,an(ideological)instit...This work argues that Denmark Vesey,Nat Turner,Gabriel Prosser,David Walker,Henry Highland Garnet,amongst a few others were the reactionary(dialectical)exceptions to the black church,not the norm,an(ideological)institution established to interpellate and indoctrinate blacks to accept their conditions in slavery.In other words,the aforementioned were the enslaved who used Christian dogma to(negative dialectically)respond to the barbarity of slavery by violently convicting white Christian society for not living up to its values,ideas,and ideals given the treatment of African people by so-called Christians.In the latter sense it was reactionary;in the former,it was an ideological apparatus of domination and control for the institution of slavery.The contemporary attempt to racially vindicate the black church as a sui generis revolutionary institution overflowing with Africanisms is ahistorical and ideological reaped in pseudoscientific propositions stemming from postmodern and post-structural theories.展开更多
文摘The issue of race is the focus of Oates’novel Because It Is Bitter,and Because It Is My Heart.The racial identity metaphors in the photos in the novels show the characteristics of racial ideology.This paper argues that photographs are no longer used as external cultural metaphors,but as invisible references to racial prejudice and racial contradictions.This article re-examines Oates’racial issue writing in the form of visual narratives and considers the ambivalence of the dual identities and double consciousness of blacks in New York City in the late 1950s from the visual ethical interpretation of black identity awareness,and the perception of cruelty and violence of social inequality.The historical limitations of the harsh reality of racism make a critical intervention in visual ethics.
文摘This work argues that Denmark Vesey,Nat Turner,Gabriel Prosser,David Walker,Henry Highland Garnet,amongst a few others were the reactionary(dialectical)exceptions to the black church,not the norm,an(ideological)institution established to interpellate and indoctrinate blacks to accept their conditions in slavery.In other words,the aforementioned were the enslaved who used Christian dogma to(negative dialectically)respond to the barbarity of slavery by violently convicting white Christian society for not living up to its values,ideas,and ideals given the treatment of African people by so-called Christians.In the latter sense it was reactionary;in the former,it was an ideological apparatus of domination and control for the institution of slavery.The contemporary attempt to racially vindicate the black church as a sui generis revolutionary institution overflowing with Africanisms is ahistorical and ideological reaped in pseudoscientific propositions stemming from postmodern and post-structural theories.
