Black Orpheus, Barack Obama’s Governmentality

Autores/as

  • Donald Pease Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-7680/1290

Palabras clave:

exceptionalism, Obama

Resumen

This essay constitutes a preliminary effort to explain the state fantasy with which Barack Obama hegemonized an alternative to the biopolitical settlement normalizing George W. Bush’s Global War on Terror (Pease 2009). In what follows, I intend to argue that Obama has not utterly displaced Bush’s Homeland State of Exception but that Obama’s governmentality presupposes it as the structuring logic through which he transformed the US state’s relationship with domestic and planetary peoples. I will be interested in particular in the role that Obama’s complex negotiation with the congeries of racial fantasies that he found condensed in the figure and the film Black Orpheus played in Barack Obama’s governmentality.

Biografía del autor/a

  • Donald Pease, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA

    Donald E. Pease, professor of English, The Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century
    Professor in the Humanities, Chair of the Dartmouth Liberal Studies Program and
    winner of the 1981 Distinguished Teaching Award at Dartmouth, is an authority on
    nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature and literary theory. In the
    summer of 1986 he brought the School of Criticism and Theory to Dartmouth. In 1996
    he founded the Dartmouth Institute in American Studies.
    The author of over one hundred articles on figures in American and British literature,
    Pease is the co-editor of American Renaissance Rediscovered and the editor of seven
    other volumes including The Cultures of United States Imperialism (1992), The Futures
    of American Studies (2002), and The New American Exceptionalism (2009).
    Professor Pease serves on the Board of Governors of the Clinton Institute in American
    Studies, and he received the Faculty Award for Service to Alumni Continuing
    Education in 1999, awarded by Dartmouth's Alumni Council. In 2000 he was the Drue
    Heinz Visiting Professor at Oxford University. Over the last five years, Pease has been
    Distinguished Visiting Professor at the JFK Institute in American Studies at the Freie
    Universitaett, Berlin; the State University of New York at Buffalo, and the University of
    Rome at Tor Vegata.

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Publicado

2011-09-09

Número

2011: NUMERO SPECIALE 9/11/2011

Sección

Saggi Ensayos Essais Essays

Cómo citar

«Black Orpheus, Barack Obama’s Governmentality». 2011. Altre Modernità, septiembre, 1-28. https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-7680/1290.