Black Orpheus, Barack Obama's Governmentality

• Autores: Donald E. Pease
• Localización: Altre Modernità: Rivista di studi letterari e culturali, ISSN-e 2035-7680, Nº. Extra 2, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Número especial 9/11/2011), págs. 1-28
• Idioma: inglés
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  • 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.