Baldwin’s Specters
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James Baldwin, Raoul Peck, racism and violence, imagery and textual manipulationAbstract
We explore the critical and narrative perspectives of the documentary I am not your Negro (2016), structured after intense research over African-American writer James Baldwin’s (1924-1987) personal archives. We attempt to show how Baldwin, through imagery and textual manipulation, resurrects important aspects of the racial issues history in the United States, which divided the country before and after the beginning of the 1970s, as well as after the Civil Rights Movement and the death of his three best friends: Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, and Malcolm X. We also call the reader’s attention to the way the documentary exposes past and present images, narratives, bodies, and names, inside the same flow, highlighting the importance of Baldwin’s reflections on the fight against racism and violence that still hang over the African-American population in contemporary times.
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