Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Extravagant abjection

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

498940297

Responsibility statement

Darieck Scott

Series statement

Sexual cultures

Sub title

blackness, power, and sexuality in the African American literary imagination

Summary

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

Table Of 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

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