>>23850428>I would like to see what all those white chuddies think of thatthe chains?
he's still defined by them, and choosing to define himself by them by wearing them—or does he not have a choice?
"reclamation" via "turning it around" and "owning it" is just an attempt at subversion of meaning via postmodern recontextualisation viewed through the lens of identity theory
the act of reclaiming the Atlantic slave trade narrative through the wearing of chains only reifies and reinforces the original meaning of the concept, unintentionally imbuing the unsubverted concept into the immutable essence underlying the mercurial and inauthentic self-conception of identity
he becomes a slave to his own self-image, and his own autoegobiographical fantasy
and, externally to his character, by invoking the essential meaning in order to subvert it, you fail to liberate the symbol from its historical associations, you only reinforce the history informing the symbolism: "he wears chains because he's black, and black people were slaves"
