An edition of Extravagant abjection
(2010)
Extravagant abjection
blackness, power, and sexuality in the African American literary imagination
by Darieck Scott
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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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Extravagant abjection: blackness, power, and sexuality in the African American literary imagination
2010, New York University Press
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0814740944 9780814740941
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Table of 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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