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Liquored up "wid de sperrits": Gothic Figures of Black Men in White Boys' Adventure Stories
Ist Teil von
Journal of popular culture, 2011-12, Vol.44 (6), p.1141-1170
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2011
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Quelle
Wiley Online Library
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Ali takes a postcolonialist perspective in reading closely the Victorian adventure stories that make the spirit of colonialism an experience of both laughter and horror, with boys roaming the world in their spectacular phantom-like existence. He also offers a brief overview of penny dreadfuls (Victorian-era boys' adventure and horror stories) that unexpectedly became popular during the peak of British colonial expansion in the latter half of the nineteenth century. A close reading of Bracebridge Hemyng's Young Jack Harkaway and his Boy Tinker will show how authors of penny dreadfuls rely on the curious interrelation between the Gothic and the colonial as the backdrop for their frequent depictions of the black man as a haunting phantom. Then, he situates the study of these popular cultural artifacts in a specific critical discourse by looking at the work of the Martiniquan anti-colonialist Frantz Fanon, who, in a fleeting moment in his book Black Skin, White Masks, refers to the problems that emerge once boys' adventure stories are exported from the center of Empire to the colonies.