Black (W)hole Foods: Okra, Soil and Blackness in The Underground Railroad (Barry Jenkins, USA, 2021)
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This essay analyses the role played by okra in The Underground Railroad, together with how it functions relation to soil that sustains and which allows grow. I argue represents an otherwise lost African past for both protagonist Cora show general this transplanted plant, similar Africans who endured Middle Passage on way ‘New World’ slave plantations, survives going through ‘black holes’, something is not only linked poetically established trope of absent Black mother but also finds support from physics, where wormholes (similar holes created worms soil) take us black into new worlds, realities or dimensions. reflected Jenkins’s series (as well as Whitehead’s novel) titular Railroad itself, sees others disappear underground reappear states (the travels Georgia South Carolina North Tennessee Indiana so on), specifically formal properties audio-visual (cinematic/televisual) medium, which, its cuts movements, similarly keeps shifting space time a nonlinear generative fashion. Finally, suggest we cannot philosophise plant medium film (or television streaming media) without philosophising race, serving means bringing plants Blackness holes, collectively playfully, group under umbrella term (w)hole foods’.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Philosophies
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2409-9287']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7050117