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

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

Enthält: Introduction -- 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.

Beteiligte: Scott, Darieck [VerfasserIn]

Erschienen: New York [u.a.]: New York University Press, 2010

Umfang: X, 317 S.; 23 cm

Sprache: Englisch

ISBN: 0814740944; 0814740952; 9780814740941; 9780814740958

RVK-Notation: HU 1728 : African Americans
HU 1691 : Einzelne Stoffe und Motive

Schlagwörter: USA > Literatur > Schwarze > Erniedrigung

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Anmerkungen: Includes bibliographical references and index

Beschreibung: 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

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