Title Extravagant abjection : blackness, power, and sexuality in the African American literary imagination / Darieck Scott

Published New York : New York University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 317 pages) Series Sexual cultures Sexual cultures. 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record SUBJECT Universidad Sergio Arboleda gnd Subject American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism African American men in literature. Power (Social sciences) in literature. Race relations in literature. Rape in literature. Homosexuality in literature. Pornography in literature. Abjection in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Abjection in literature African American men in literature American fiction -- African American authors Homosexuality in literature Pornography in literature Power (Social sciences) in literature Race relations in literature Rape in literature Schwarze Literatur Gewalt Motiv Erniedrigung Motiv Erotik Motiv Gewalt -- Motiv -- Roman -- amerikanischer -- Afroamerikanische Autoren. Demütigung -- Motiv -- Roman -- amerikanischer -- Afroamerikanische Autoren. Roman -- amerikanischer -- Afroamerikanische Autoren -- Motiv -- Gewalt. Roman -- amerikanischer -- Afroamerikanische Autoren -- Motiv -- Demütigung. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2010002954 ISBN 9780814741351 0814741355 0814786545 9780814786543

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