An Ecocritical Look at Flint's Water Crisis and Afro-Gothic Liquidity

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Abstract In 2014, as a cost-saving measure, Flint, Michigan, switched its water supply to the Flint River — unofficial toxic waste disposal site for meatpacking plants, car factories, and lumber paper mills, well city's depository of agricultural urban runoff untreated raw sewage. what may be viewed Gothic trope “poisoned well,” crisis has directly affected mostly African American population where 45 percent Flint's residents are living below poverty line. This essay positions in conversation with artist Pope.L, who 2017 created an installation/performance/marketplace which he bottled noxious shuttled sold it willing buyers. I consider aesthetics performativity Pope.L's Water Project alongside nautical world-building Drexciya aquatic hybrid figures Wangechi Mutu's work. assembly offers speculative approach Afro-Gothic liquidity through understanding black geophysics embodiment alluvial monstrosities refusals.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Liquid blackness

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['2692-3874']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26923874-9930283