Abstract
In her article "The Slave Trade in the Work of Fox, Johnson, and Spielberg" Ya-huei Lin analyzes Paula Fox's The Slave Dancer (1973), Charles R. Johnson's The Middle Passage (1990), and Amistad, the 1997 film directed by Steven Spielberg based on the true event of 1841. Lin's examination of these three texts is an attempt to clarify the event's narration in the context of Walter Benjamin's historical materialism. Further, Lin explores what Louis Althusser proposes in "A Letter on Art" as to how the texts at hand make one see the ideology from which they are located. The authors' politics of representation thus become Lin's point of investigation. Taking into account the portrayers, as well as the portrayed, Lin presents a view of the forced journeys of the slaves.
Recommended Citation
Lin, Ya-Huei.
"The Slave Trade in the Work of Fox, Johnson, and Spielberg."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
14.5
(2012):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2141>
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