The Quarterback at Twilight: On Matthew Barney’s “Secondary”
Samuel Fury Childs Daly reviews artist Matthew Barney’s new film “Secondary.”
Samuel Fury Childs Daly is associate professor of African and African American Studies at Duke University. He is the author of A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War (Cambridge, 2020). He is currently writing a comparative study of why soldiers run from battle, entitled The Good Soldier: A Global History of Military Deserters.
Samuel Fury Childs Daly reviews artist Matthew Barney’s new film “Secondary.”
As a meditation on war, race, and colonialism, Diop’s novel cuts like a dull knife.