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Extravagant abjection : blackness, power, and sexuality in the African American literary imagination

Author
Scott, Darieck.
Title
Extravagant abjection : blackness, power, and sexuality in the African American literary imagination / Darieck Scott.
Format
Book
Published
New York : New York University Press, c2010.
Description
x, 317 p. ; 23 cm.
Uniform series
Sexual cultures.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Introduction: Blackness, abjection, and sexuality
  • Fanon's muscles: (Black) power revisited
  • "A race that could be so dealt with" : terror, time, and (Black) power
  • Slavery, rape, and the Black male abject
  • Notes on Black (power) bottoms
  • The occupied territory : homosexuality and history in Amiri Baraka's Black arts
  • Porn and the n-word : lust, Samuel Delany's The mad man, and a derangement of body and sense(s)
  • Conclusion: Extravagant abjection.
Summary
Challenging the conception of empowerment associated with the Black Power Movement and its political and intellectual legacies, this title contends that power can be found not only in martial resistance, but, surprisingly, where the black body has been inflicted with harm or humiliation.
Kinsey subjects
Men in literature. Afroamericans sex attitudes. Afroamericans and homosexuality. Sex in literature. Humiliation theme. Homosexuality in literature. Sadomasochism in literature.
ISBN
9780814740941 (cl : alk. paper) 0814740944 (cl : alk. paper) 9780814740958 (pb : alk. paper) 0814740952 (pb : alk. paper) 9780814741351 (e-book : alk. paper) 0814741355 (e-book : alk. paper)

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Kinsey Institute Library (by appointment only)
Call Number
809.85 S36 e9 2010
Location
Auxiliary Library Facility - Kinsey Institute