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Illusive Utopia: Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea (review)

As troubling enactments, non-iconicity, excess flesh, and the visible seam constitute effective strategies with which to lay bare, and often disrupt, dominant racial logics of/in the visual sphere. Fleetwood’s remarkable study alerts us to how these strategies radically reorient “the psychic and affective domains of seeing and doing black” (15), thus revealing new terrain on which to construct political, social, and cultural theories of visual blackness. To be sure, Troubling Vision should quickly become standard reading for those looking for new insight — and new methods — in black visual and performance studies.