Hi Prof Dadabhoy! I read The Shining recently & couldn’t stop thinking about this. Do you think King intended the book to be read in this way? I’m not familiar with his other work but the role of Jack’s whiteness is hard to ignore. Thanks for changing the way I read 
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @natashafloerke
I’m so glad you noticed that too, Natasha. I actually don’t think King is commenting on whiteness in the novel, masculinity yes, maybe even toxic masculinity, but the white male grienvance really stood out for me. I haven’t seen the film and I wonder if it’s better or worse.
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @DrDadabhoy ja @natashafloerke
I’ve only seen the film so far and not read the book - your analysis here sheds light on a moment in the film that stuck out a LOT, where two white male characters use the n word to refer to the head chef.
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It only happens once. And seems like the chef is even less included in the film than in the book. So the conversation between the white guys about him ends up seeming like a bizarre nonsequitur of overt racism. I wondered if it was a hamfisted effort to demonize the white men.
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But seems like it was just Kubrick distilling a whole novel of racist depiction into one useless scene and a highly stereotyped narrow role for the only Black character
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @frankie_gj ja @natashafloerke
It’s obviously not unheard of for white people to include black people in the “art” they make simply in order to advance the arc of the white character or even to expose their racism. What’s interesting to me is how that’s supposed to be some kind of epiphanic moment. 1/
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For the white audience. Like oh now that we can see he’s a racist, it makes his misogyny so much more understandable&identifiable. The racism also has 2B over the top for it to even count as racism. Daily routine microaggressions don’t reach the level of gratuitous n-word use.
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Again all geared toward a white gaze.
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @DrDadabhoy ja @natashafloerke
not sure if you’ve seen Get Out, but i think it references The Shining in a bunch of interesting ways that leverage the white gaze in that film/horror films as a genre in general to create some delicious twists.
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is investigating race in horror writing something you’ve been looking at for a while? would love to learn more if you have favorite primary or secondary sources.
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I've been teaching Monsters in Lit at HMC for a while and many of our theoretical readings touch on how race and gender are monsterized in our culture. DM me your email address and I can send you some of those readings. Right now, I'm teaching Get Out for summer term 1/
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in combination with bell hooks' eating the other, which is about the consumption and commodification of blackness in white supremacist society. There's a meaningful dialogue between these texts. There's also a lot to be said about the white cultural norms of US horror genre. 2/2
0 vastausta 0 uudelleentwiittausta 1 tykkäysKiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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