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“Whether Beast or Human”: The Cultural Legacies of Dread, Locks, and Dystopia
- Small Axe
- Indiana University Press
- Number 23 (Volume 11, Number 2), June 2007
- pp. 46-62
- Article
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Analyzing the ongoing problem of Caribbean racial exploitation, particularly fear signified through one of the most potent Caribbean symbols, dreadlocks, I argue that Medusa's alterity is altered by Rastafarians' snake-like hair, but the transformative power of Rasta dreadlocks is contested through certain cinematic depictions of dread.