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• W258404200 abstract "Whereas Aragon persists within realm of dream, here concern is to find constellation of awakening ... here it is question of dissolution of 'mythology into space of history--Walter Benjamin (Arcades Project [N 1, 9] 458) As photographs give people an imaginary possession of past that is unreal they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.... photograph is thin slice of space as well as time. In world ruled by photographic images, all borders ... seem arbitrary--Susan Sontag (On Photography 9) Segregation and Deep Space of Time In 1940, Richard Wright defined central struggle of burgeoning Civil Rights Movement. Imagining segregation as both physical and psychological, he juxtaposed alleys of Black Belt with centuries-long chasm of emptiness in individuals like Bigger Thomas (How xxvi, xxvii). Five years later, he again fused notions of psychological and physical exclusion, this time in South: the environment South creates is too small to nourish human beings Boy 3). Further fusing literal (Black Belt) and symbolic (centuries-long chasm) segregations, Wright created series of confined spaces--Big Boy's hole in Big Boy Leaves Home (1936), Bigger Thomas's coal bunker in Native Son (1940), sewer in The Man Who Lived Underground (1942), and underground corridors in The Man Who Went to Chicago (1945). Across his canon, Wright used cultural borderland of manholes, coal-bunkers, and sewers to express literal and figurative margins of American society. (1) Wright's segregation aesthetic was one of many such Civil Rights fusions of physical and symbolic space. From Montgomery bus boycott to 1965 march from Selma, activists battled for space. They struggled for physical space of buses, public schools, and lunch counters: Rosa Parks remained in her seat on bus in 1955; Little Rock Nine refused to accept line drawn on street in 1957; and in 1960 six-year-old Ruby Bridges integrated William Frantz Public School while four freshmen in Greensboro staged lunch counter sit-in. But activists also battled for symbolic space. For example, ballot box was literal site of segregation. After Reconstruction, black southerners were turned away from voting centers by white clerks and driven away by mob violence, and Civil Rights activists pointed to example of Medgar Evers, black veteran turned away from voting booth in Mississippi in 1946. It was also deeply symbolic site of exclusion: the vote is most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men, concluded Lyndon Johnson in August 1965 (qtd. in Lawson 3-4). Fusing literal notions of space with figurative notions, Civil Rights activists, writers, and artists saw their battle in spatio-symbolic terms. Their rhetoric spatialized segregation, as though they anticipated Liam Kennedy's charge that while common understanding of space is that it is simply there, intangible but given, we should instead consider space as an indicator of embedded ideologies (8). And their representations also overthrew confined space of civic and physical spheres in United States, creating instead what bell hooks calls spaces of agency Looks 116). If, as Ralph Ellison once claimed, African Americans were negative upon which our society shall realize its goals (Essays 351), then Movement demanded space beyond negative ground and entry into what Martin Luther King, Jr., called in 1956 choice place (The 'New Negro' 19), or in 1968 promised land (I Have 203). Beyond negative utopia, as Lutz Niethammer once put it, was a cultivation of alternative forms of life in margins and cavities of system (4, 9): artists turned no-place of America's margins into space of resistance and freedom, and transformed very concept of margins (to point where King insisted in 1963 that anyone who lives in United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere in this country [I Have 85]). …" @default.
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• W258404200 title "A Negative Utopia: Protest Memory and the Spatio-Symbolism of Civil Rights Literature and Photography" @default.
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