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“Be Real Black For Me”: Lincoln Clay and Luke Cage as the Heroes We Need
CEA Critic ( IF <0.1 ) Pub Date : 2017-01-01 , DOI: 10.1353/cea.2017.0006
Samantha Blackmon

The beginning of the twenty-first century has seen race and race relations in the United States of America return to days of Freedom Riders, Jim Crow laws, and (figurative if not literal) cross burnings in the night. In 2016 we saw a response to these things come out of the pop culture genre. While one of these responses is specifically a game, Mafia III, the other comes to us from the Marvel comic universe via Luke Cage. I argue that while the super-/anti-heroes depicted in these narratives (Lincoln Clay and Luke Cage respectively) may not be the heroes that we are accustomed to seeing in video games or comics (they are Black, brash, and fighting for a community of people of color), they are the heroes that we need at this moment. Clay and Cage offer consumers of the media the opportunity to view Blackness critically through the lens of their bodies, their connections to the community, their families, and the women around them. Used as a foil for the men in these narratives, the women come to the fore and are seen in relief. Music is central in the narratives of these two men. In Mafia III, music builds the environment, and the radio plays constantly in the cars that Lincoln Clay drives. Every episode of Luke Cage is named after a contemporary rap song, and the music serves as an auditory backdrop for all of his interactions (both violent and not). Because of the centrality of the music in these narratives, each of the sections of my analysis also calls upon its own song, and I start each with a snippet of the lyrics.

中文翻译:

“为我做真正的黑人”:林肯克莱和卢克凯奇作为我们需要的英雄

二十一世纪初,美利坚合众国的种族和种族关系又回到了自由骑士、吉姆克劳法和(象征性的,如果不是字面的)夜间交叉燃烧的时代。2016 年,我们看到流行文化流派对这些事情做出了回应。虽然其中一个回应是专门针对游戏《黑手党 III》,但另一个回应则是通过卢克·凯奇 (Luke Cage) 来自漫威漫画世界。我认为,虽然这些叙事中描绘的超级/反英雄(分别是林肯克莱和卢克凯奇)可能不是我们习惯在电子游戏或漫画中看到的英雄(他们是黑人,傲慢,为有色人种社区),他们是我们此刻需要的英雄。Clay 和 Cage 为媒体消费者提供了机会,通过他们的身体、他们与社区的联系、他们的家庭以及他们周围的女性来批判性地看待黑人。在这些叙述中,作为男性的陪衬,女性脱颖而出并被视为浮雕。音乐是这两个人叙事的核心。在《黑手党 III》中,音乐营造了环境,而林肯·克莱 (Lincoln Clay) 驾驶的汽车中不断播放着收音机。卢克凯奇的每一集都以一首当代说唱歌曲命名,音乐作为他所有互动(暴力和非暴力)的听觉背景。由于音乐在这些叙事中的中心地位,我分析的每个部分也都调用了自己的歌曲,并且我从歌词片段开始每个部分。以及身边的女人。在这些叙述中,作为男性的陪衬,女性脱颖而出并被视为浮雕。音乐是这两个人叙事的核心。在《黑手党 III》中,音乐营造了环境,而林肯·克莱 (Lincoln Clay) 驾驶的汽车中不断播放着收音机。卢克凯奇的每一集都以一首当代说唱歌曲命名,音乐作为他所有互动(暴力和非暴力)的听觉背景。由于音乐在这些叙事中的中心地位,我分析的每个部分也都调用了自己的歌曲,并且我从歌词片段开始每个部分。以及身边的女人。在这些叙述中,作为男性的陪衬,女性脱颖而出并被视为浮雕。音乐是这两个人叙事的核心。在《黑手党 III》中,音乐营造了环境,而林肯·克莱 (Lincoln Clay) 驾驶的汽车中不断播放收音机。卢克凯奇的每一集都以一首当代说唱歌曲命名,音乐作为他所有互动(暴力和非暴力)的听觉背景。由于音乐在这些叙事中的中心地位,我分析的每个部分也都调用了自己的歌曲,并且我从歌词片段开始每个部分。收音机在林肯克莱驾驶的汽车中不断播放。卢克凯奇的每一集都以一首当代说唱歌曲命名,音乐作为他所有互动(暴力和非暴力)的听觉背景。由于音乐在这些叙事中的中心地位,我分析的每个部分也都调用了自己的歌曲,并且我从歌词片段开始每个部分。收音机在林肯克莱驾驶的汽车中不断播放。卢克凯奇的每一集都以一首当代说唱歌曲命名,音乐作为他所有互动(暴力和非暴力)的听觉背景。由于音乐在这些叙述中的中心地位,我分析的每个部分也都调用了自己的歌曲,并且我从歌词片段开始每个部分。
更新日期:2017-01-01
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