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"Better never means better for everyone": White feminist necropolitics and Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale

Neville-Shepard, Meredith

The Quarterly journal of speech, 2023-01, Vol.109 (1), p.2-25 [同儕審閱期刊]

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"Better never means better for everyone": White feminist necropolitics and Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale
著者: Neville-Shepard, Meredith
主題: Feminism ; Handmaid's Tale ; necropolitics ; post-racial ; White feminism ; whiteness
所屬期刊: The Quarterly journal of speech, 2023-01, Vol.109 (1), p.2-25
描述: This article builds on those who have critiqued Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale along racial lines and calls into question the esteemed status the show holds as a rhetorical resource for contemporary feminist activism. By drawing attention to the parasitical relationship that the archetype of the vulnerable (but resilient) white woman has to Black pain and death, I argue that the series further calcifies the dominance of white feminism, enacting what I term "white feminist necropolitics." To illuminate this theory, the essay presents a close analysis of The Handmaid's Tale. Specifically, I demonstrate how the show deploys post-racial logics to center a white feminist heroine whose story of saviorism relies on the cooptation of Black pain and the exploitation of Black death. Ultimately, this critical reading of the series points to the ways in which white feminism and necropolitics are intricately entangled.
出版者: Philadelphia: Routledge
語言: 英文
識別號: ISSN: 0033-5630
EISSN: 1479-5779
DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2022.2136738
資源來源: Taylor & Francis Social Science & Humanities and Science & Technology Library Database Model

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