| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
blackness, power, and sexuality in the African American literary imagination |
| Author: |
ScottDarieck, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
New York |
| Published: |
New York University Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2010 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (x, 317 p.). |
| Series: |
Sexual cultures |
| Subject: |
Abjection in literature - |
| Subject: |
Pornography in literature - |
| Subject: |
Homosexuality in literature - |
| Subject: |
Rape in literature - |
| Subject: |
Race relations in literature - |
| Subject: |
Power (Social sciences) in literature - |
| Subject: |
African American men in literature - |
| Subject: |
American fiction - African American authors - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814741351/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| 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 harmor humiliation |
| ISBN: |
9780814741351electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0814741355electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780814740941hbk. |
| ISBN: |
0814740944hbk. |
| ISBN: |
9780814740958pbk. |
| ISBN: |
0814740952pbk. |
| Content Note: |
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 theBlack 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 |