※ [本文轉錄自 NTU07DFLL 看板] 作者: titdnic (傑克維) 看板: NTU07DFLL 標題: [公告] 外文系學術演講 時間: Tue Jun 2 10:58:48 2009 國立臺灣大學外國語文學系學術演講 "Hiding in the Light": Bert Williams, Resistance, and the Specter/Spectacle of Race 演講人：蕭立君助理教授（臺大外文系助理教授） 主持人：李欣穎副教授（臺大外文系副教授） 時間：2009年6月3日（週三）下午3:30-5:00 地點：臺大校史館（舊總圖）一樓外文系新會議室 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract: In light of the theoretical framework outlined in a larger project, my presentation will examine the blackface performance of Bert Williams, a Caribbean-born black performer who was the first to integrate Broadway stage and enjoy sustained popularity in the early years of the twentieth century. This project takes as its point of departure Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks’s conception of race as a “regime of visibility,” and explores the curious phenomenon of the ostensible invisibility of race, as a “problem” or a category of political mobilization, in historical junctures in which glaring racial difference was in various ways rendered a spectacle, focusing on the workings of race and the modes and strategies of resistance organized around race. Power that counts on the regime of visibility, I argue, can nevertheless be predicated on the invisibility of race while operating on the staging of racial elements and/or the figurations of race. Through the discussions of the case of Bert Williams as well as a few historical antecedents that foregrounded such problematic functioning of race, I would point to and examine the propinquity of the specter and the spectacle of race —that is, how its visibility hinges on or is intertwined with, and might result in its invisibility. Williams’ strategy of “hiding in the light” or hiding in plain sight, mirrors, in an ironically diametrical way, the functioning of the spectacle of race. The highly incalculable cultural form of blackface masking emerges as a racial spectacle par excellence, yet it also exemplifies a certain invisibility of race that instantiates the indistinguishable zone between strategies of resistance and forms of collaboration in a vastly imbalanced power relation. Based on psychoanalytic theory, this paper shall also explore the possibility of articulating such specter, which is traumatic, constitutively invisible, and always susceptible to the appropriations of the spectacle, thereby effecting visible changes in a given socio-political order. --

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