Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates Jr

Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates Jr

Author:Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2019-04-01T16:00:00+00:00


The Frisco serves to deconstruct the black-male-as-lecher stereotype, revealing, as Bhabha puts it, that “the stereotype is at once a substitute and a shadow,” a substitute for white male rape in slavery as well as a shadow by which “the stereotyped Other reveals something of the ‘fantasy’ (as desire, defence) of that position of [white male] mastery.”37 It is not a surprise that this depiction of the doubling of the return of the gaze was created and circulated in France; little like it was in circulation in the United States at the height of Jim Crow. Something so daring would have been much more scandalous than Manly’s editorial.



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