Extravagant abjection

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

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Extravagant abjection

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

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English
Pages
327

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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York
Series
Sexual cultures

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.5409896073
Library of Congress
PS374.N4 S36 2010, PS374.N4S36 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
327

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24068505M
Internet Archive
extravagantabjec0000scot
ISBN 10
0814740944, 0814740952, 0814741355
ISBN 13
9780814740941, 9780814740958, 9780814741351
LCCN
2010002954
OCLC/WorldCat
498940297

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