Négrographèse : être noir·e, s’écrire noir·e. L’écriture de la « race » chez Casey
Through a close study of the texts of the rapper Casey, taken from her musical albums released between 2006 and 2014, this article aims to reflect on process anchored in Black corporality. The Black body, central in the work of Casey, a French-born Martinican, is both the object and the subject of a...
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| description | Through a close study of the texts of the rapper Casey, taken from her musical albums released between 2006 and 2014, this article aims to reflect on process anchored in Black corporality. The Black body, central in the work of Casey, a French-born Martinican, is both the object and the subject of a radical otherness which, rather than being the neutral side of identity, makes this body something other to be put far from the self in order to better valorize oneself (Jodelet 2005). This body is analyzed in the descriptions, connotations, presuppositions and colonial legacies that have been associated with it for centuries, together otherwise called “negro reason” (“raison nègre”) by Achille Mbembe (2013), in the particular context of 21st century France. This body is also thought of in relation to the bodies of West Indian slaves on plantations, and in the marks perpetuated on them from one era to the next. But this body is not only suffering, it is also part of an important process of reappropriation and revaluation by Casey. This double movement makes it possible to suggest, in order to give an account of the rapper's artistic project (and of those who write, think and rethink the Black body), the idea of “negrographesis,” which follows the reflections of Logan (1975), Edelman (1994), and Paveau and Zoberman (2009). |
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