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An Essentially American Narrative: A Discussion of Steve McQueen's Film '12 Years a Slave
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“I Got No Comfort in This Life”: The Increasing Importance of Patsey in 12 Years a Slave Salamishah Tillet She was terribly lacerated—I may say, without exaggeration, literally flayed. Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave There’s a subtlety that leads up to the crescendo of Patsy being whipped by Solomon. I had to do it because I couldn’t look at myself in the mirror as an artist and not do it that way. Steve McQueen What happens if we assume that the female subject serves as a general case for explicating social death, property relations, and the pained and putative construction of Blackness? . . . What possi- bilities of resignification would then be possible? Saidiya Hartman, Scenes of Subjection In interview after interview, British director Steve McQueen has confessed that he broke down only once during the filming of 12 Years a Slave. It was during the scene in which the enslaved woman, Patsey (played by Lupita Nyong’o), is being tended to by other slaves after both her friend, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), and her master, Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender), have Salamishah Tillet is an associate professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author
American Literary History – Oxford University Press
Published: May 1, 2014
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