Extravagant Abjection : : Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination / / Darieck Scott.

Challenging the conception of empowerment associated with the Black Power Movement and its political and intellectual legacies in the present, Darieck Scott contends that power can be found not only in martial resistance, but, surprisingly, where the black body has been inflicted with harm or humili...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Sexual Cultures ; 17
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Fanon’s Muscles
  • 2. “A Race That Could Be So Dealt With”
  • 3. Slavery, Rape, and the Black Male Abject
  • 4. The Occupied Territory
  • 5. Porn and the N-Word
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author