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Nobody Knows My Name: The Masquerade of Mourning in the Early 1980s Artistic Productions of Michael Jackson and Prince

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dc.abstract.enThe article analyses Michael Jackson’s album Thriller and Prince’s movie Purple Rain. We explore their camp aesthetics and their recasting of the cultural representations of the black male. Jackson’s and Prince’s performative personas are both liberatory and burdened with the received cultural scripts of black masculinity. We claim that their employment of camp is political rather than escapist and depoliticized. Camp serves them as a platform to mourn the cultural displacement of the black male body in a postslavery America. In particular, the two artists distance themselves from the extensive ideological and physical pressures exerted on the black male body in the early 1980s. As a result, their performances are complexly de-Oedipalized. Prince in Purple Rain refuses to assume the patriarchal position of the Father. Analogously, Jackson fashions himself as a Peter Pan-like eternal adolescent who never makes his final identification as either heterosexual or LGBTQ desiring agent. In the coda to the article, we reach beyond the 1980s to explore a more flexible approach to camp in the artistic output of twenty-first-century African American performers of Queercore and Afrofuturist scenes, which were partially enabled by Jackson’s and Prince’s performances.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorPochmara-Ryżko, Anna
dc.contributor.authorWierzchowska, Justyna
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-25T13:50:28Z
dc.date.available2024-01-25T13:50:28Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.financeNie dotyczy
dc.description.number1
dc.identifier.doi10.1515/CULTURE-2017-0058
dc.identifier.issn2451-3474
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/113807
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://www.degruyter.com/view/j/culture.2017.1.issue-1/culture-2017-0058/culture-2017-0058.xml?lang=en
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationliterary studies
dc.relation.ispartofOpen Cultural Studies
dc.relation.pages628–645
dc.rightsClosedAccess
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dc.subject.enMichael Jackson Prince camp black camp
dc.titleNobody Knows My Name: The Masquerade of Mourning in the Early 1980s Artistic Productions of Michael Jackson and Prince
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication