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作者: titdnic (傑克維) 看板: NTU07DFLL
標題: [公告] 外文系學術演講
時間: Tue Jun 2 10:58:48 2009
國立臺灣大學外國語文學系學術演講
"Hiding in the Light":
Bert Williams, Resistance, and the Specter/Spectacle of Race
演講人：蕭立君助理教授（臺大外文系助理教授）
主持人：李欣穎副教授（臺大外文系副教授）
時間：2009年6月3日（週三）下午3:30-5:00
地點：臺大校史館（舊總圖）一樓外文系新會議室
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Abstract:
In light of the theoretical framework outlined in a larger project, my
presentation will examine the blackface performance of Bert Williams, a
Caribbean-born black performer who was the first to integrate Broadway stage
and enjoy sustained popularity in the early years of the twentieth century.
This project takes as its point of departure Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks’s
conception of race as a “regime of visibility,” and explores the curious
phenomenon of the ostensible invisibility of race, as a “problem” or a
category of political mobilization, in historical junctures in which glaring
racial difference was in various ways rendered a spectacle, focusing on the
workings of race and the modes and strategies of resistance organized around
race. Power that counts on the regime of visibility, I argue, can
nevertheless be predicated on the invisibility of race while operating on the
staging of racial elements and/or the figurations of race. Through the
discussions of the case of Bert Williams as well as a few historical
antecedents that foregrounded such problematic functioning of race, I would
point to and examine the propinquity of the specter and the spectacle of race
—that is, how its visibility hinges on or is intertwined with, and might
result in its invisibility. Williams’ strategy of “hiding in the light” or
hiding in plain sight, mirrors, in an ironically diametrical way, the
functioning of the spectacle of race. The highly incalculable cultural form
of blackface masking emerges as a racial spectacle par excellence, yet it
also exemplifies a certain invisibility of race that instantiates the
indistinguishable zone between strategies of resistance and forms of
collaboration in a vastly imbalanced power relation. Based on psychoanalytic
theory, this paper shall also explore the possibility of articulating such
specter, which is traumatic, constitutively invisible, and always susceptible
to the appropriations of the spectacle, thereby effecting visible changes in
a given socio-political order.
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