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Legal Spectatorship - Slavery and the Visual Culture of Domestic Violence (Paperback)
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Legal Spectatorship - Slavery and the Visual Culture of Domestic Violence (Paperback)
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In Legal Spectatorship Kelli Moore traces the political origins of
the concept of domestic violence through visual culture in the
United States. Tracing its appearance in Article IV of the
Constitution, slave narratives, police notation, cybernetic
theories of affect, criminal trials, and the "look" of the battered
woman, Moore contends that domestic violence refers to more than
violence between intimate partners-it denotes the mechanisms of
racial hierarchy and oppression that undergird republican
government in the United States. Moore connects the use of
photographic evidence of domestic violence in courtrooms, which
often stands in for women's testimony, to slaves' silent experience
and witnessing of domestic abuse. Drawing on Harriet Jacobs's
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, abolitionist print culture,
courtroom witness testimony, and the work of Hortense Spillers,
Moore shows how the logic of slavery and antiblack racism also
dictates the silencing techniques of the contemporary domestic
violence courtroom. By positioning testimony on contemporary
domestic violence prosecution within the archive of slavery, Moore
demonstrates that domestic violence and its image are haunted by
black bodies, black flesh, and black freedom. Duke University Press
Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient
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