Homi Baba Postcolonial Perspectives Analyzing the "Magic Negro" Movie The Green Book

Abstract

The Green Book, a winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture, provides an in-depth analysis of racial issues in 20th century American society by presenting a deep friendship across race and class. Starting from postcolonialism, the film embodies the hybridity of identities through the interchanging of roles between whites and blacks, while the blacks in the film seem to be different from the traditional image of blacks. This paper interprets the film from Homi Baba's postcolonial perspective and the perspective of the "magical negro" to provide new thinking on the issue of race, culture and identity hybridization in the postcolonial era.