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001 2010002954
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008 100128s2010 nyu b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aPS374.N4$bS36 2010
082 00 $a813/.5409896073$222
100 1 $aScott, Darieck.
245 10 $aExtravagant abjection :$bblackness, power, and sexuality in the African American literary imagination /$cDarieck Scott.
260 $aNew York :$bNew York University Press,$cc2010.
300 $ax, 317 p. ;$c23 cm.
490 1 $aSexual cultures
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
520 8 $aSummary: 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.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAfrican American men in literature.
650 0 $aPower (Social sciences) in literature.
650 0 $aRace relations in literature.
650 0 $aRape in literature.
650 0 $aHomosexuality in literature.
650 0 $aPornography in literature.
650 0 $aAbjection in literature.
830 0 $aSexual cultures.