| Description |
1 online resource (x, 317 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Sexual cultures
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Sexual cultures.
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| Bibliography |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- African American authors. |
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African American men in literature.
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African American men in literature. |
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Power (Social sciences) in literature.
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Power (Social sciences) in literature. |
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Race relations in literature.
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Race relations in literature. |
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Rape in literature.
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Rape in literature. |
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Homosexuality in literature.
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Homosexuality in literature. |
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Pornography in literature.
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Pornography in literature. |
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Abjection in literature.
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Abjection in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Scott, Darieck. Extravagant abjection. New York : New York University Press, ©2010 9780814740941 (DLC) 2010002954 (OCoLC)498940297 |
| ISBN |
9780814741351 (electronic book) |
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0814741355 (electronic book) |
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9780814740941 |
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0814740944 |
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9780814740958 |
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0814740952 |
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