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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
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- 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)