Plantation Spaces and the Black Body

Schäfer, Stefanie

Plantation Spaces and the Black Body

Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained as Maroon Narrative

dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage	167	en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue	1	en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage	187	en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume	1	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Schäfer, Stefanie
dc.date.accessioned	2023-02-10T15:12:10Z
dc.date.available	2023-02-10T15:12:10Z
dc.date.issued	2014	en_US
dc.description.abstract	This article reads Django Unchained as a maroon narrative. It argues that the film’s spatial poetics critique the American symbolic landscapes of the West and the South as well as their cinematic representation. The analysis examines the depiction of the black body and the blending of Western and Southern spaces in an American business master narrative. In this setup, Tarantino’s self-made black cowboy figure is not heroic but remains a cipher in both epistemologies. Django acts as a ghost who haunts the plantation and the frontier in a series of masquerades, thus pointing to the pitfalls of cinema history and national myth-making.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2830
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00103784-16
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.relation.issn	2198-7920	en_US
dc.relation.journal	Black Studies Papers	en_US
dc.rights	L::CC BY-NC 4.0	en_US
dc.subject.ddc	ddc:791	en_US
dc.subject.ddc	ddc:810	en_US
dc.subject.field	americanstudies	en_US
dc.subject.field	filmstudies	en_US
dc.subject.field	culturalstudies	en_US
dc.title	Plantation Spaces and the Black Body	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained as Maroon Narrative	en_US
dc.title.specialissue	Slavery Revisited	en_US
dc.type	article	en_US
dc.type.version	publishedVersion	en_US
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