Colonial Possessions: A Fanonian Reading of The Exorcist and its Sequels

• Autores: Kevin J., Jr. Wetmore
• Localización: Social research: An international quarterly of the social sciences, ISSN 0037-783X, Nº. 4, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Endangered Scholars Worldwide), págs. 883-896
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The Exorcist posits that its eponymous character first battled a demon in Africa. The rest of the films in the series then, echoing a strong trope in American horror, site in Africa the locus of evil. By juxtaposing these narratives with Frantz Fanon�s writings about possession in The Wretched of the Earth, one might see how colonial violence and indigenous possession belief reflect a culture in tension over the violence done to bodies and the freeing power of exorcism