ENGL 2P13 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Gregory Poirier, Verisimilitude, Revisionist Western
10 Mar 2016
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Real life story, 8 people died, town burned down to the ground within days. Rosewood burned the black history in that part. They were going so well and had a lot of progress but it was al destroyed. Recognizes that art plays a role in social identity. Challenges the traditional western using it"s own techniques. Art as recuperative the power of art to restore missing history (especially. Uses the popularity of the genre to examine historical tragedy inds embedded heroism where it went unseen before. Borrowing the resources (genre) of the acknowledged power so that that power can acknowledge you. Looks again at social myth, historic reconstruction, and psychological truth in the western. This clumsy and ill- conceived tribute to avenging black manhood all but destroys the credibility of the ilm, robbing the real-life heroes of rosewood of much of their dignity and historical agency. (arsenault 38)
