“Queen of the fields”: Slavery’s Graphic Violence and the Black Female Body in 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013)
This paper examines Steve McQueen’s strategy in 12 Years a Slave, which consists in filming the horrors of slavery through a narrative construction that mostly concerns Solomon Northup, a “temporary” slave who survives slavery, and a visual construction centered on Patsey, a “permanent” slave who is...
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Main Author: | Hélène Charlery |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Association Française d'Etudes Américaines
2019-09-01
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Series: | Transatlantica |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/12453 |
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