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An Ode to Black British Girls: Black British Feminism, Black Girl Surrealism, and Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum

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dc.creatorHope, Jeanelle Kevina
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-06T14:37:41Z
dc.date.available2022-10-06T14:37:41Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis article delves into Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum, examining how the cultural text builds upon Black feminist media discourse, and intimately grapples with the nuances of Black women’s sexuality while explicitly challenging misogynoir. This work illustrates how Coel is helping develop a Black British cultural aesthetic that centers Black women’s liberation, specifically from an African immigrant perspective, by using satire, all the beauty, pain, and struggles that come with #blackgirlmagic, eccentric adornments, and ‘awkward’ ostentatious characters that at times play into racist images and tropes of Black womanhood to expose the absurdity of life in an anti-Black, sexist, and xenophobic society. In sum, this article understands Coel’s work in Chewing Gum to be Black girl surrealism – the intersection of Afro-surrealism, British dark comedy, and Black feminism.en
dc.identifier.doi10.18146/view.266
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18966
dc.identifier.urihttps://viewjournal.eu/articles/10.18146/view.266/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20126
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNetherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
dc.publisher.placeHilversum
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0969
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVIEW. Journal of European Television History and Culture
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectBlack British Feminismen
dc.subjectAfrosurrealismen
dc.subjectBlack British televisionen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titleAn Ode to Black British Girls: Black British Feminism, Black Girl Surrealism, and Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gumen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2022-10-06T16:51:55
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttp://doi.org/10.18146/view.266
local.source.epage47
local.source.issue20
local.source.issueTitleRace and European TV Histories
local.source.spage34
local.source.volume10

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