Description With the Ta-Nehisi Coates-authored Black Panther comic book series (2016); recent films Django Unchained (2012) and The Birth of a Nation (2016)
Nate Parker\'s cinematic imagining of the Nat Turner rebellion; and screen adaptations of Marvel\'s Luke Cage (2016) and Black Panther (2018); violent Black redeemers have rarely been so present in mainstream Western culture.
About the Author GRÉGORY Pierrot is an assistant professor of English.
His study follows important articulations of the figure and how it has shifted based on historical and cultural contexts.
Pierrot argues that this Western archetype plays an essential role in helping exclusive, hostile understandings of racial belonging become normalized in the collective consciousness of Atlantic nations. occupation of Haiti in 1915.
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It tracks the Black Avenger trope from its inception in the seventeenth century to the U.
Pierrot\'s The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture studies this cultural history, examining a multicultural and cross-historical network of print material including fiction, drama, poetry, news, and historical writing as well as visual culture.
Regularly throughout the modern era and to this day, variations on the trope have contributed to defining race in the Atlantic World and thwarting the constitution of a Black polity.
Where his body lies, lies the color line.
The Black Avenger is thus a liminal figure defining racial borders.
Yet being racially different, he cannot belong, and his qualities in turn make him an anomaly among Black people.
Even as he is portrayed as a heathen and a barbarian, his values--honor, loyalty, love--reflect his ties to the West.
The Black Avenger channeled fresh anxieties about slave uprisings and racial belonging occasioned by European colonization in the Americas.
Gr gory Pierrot argues, however, that the Black Avenger has always been with us: the trope has fired the news and imaginations of the United States and the larger Atlantic World for three centuries.
Description With the Ta-Nehisi Coates-authored Black Panther comic book series (2016); recent films Django Unchained (2012) and The Birth of a Nation (2016)
Nate Parker\'s cinematic imagining of the Nat Turner rebellion; and screen adaptations of Marvel\'s Luke Cage (2016) and Black Panther (2018); violent Black redeemers have rarely been so present in mainstream Western culture
