Becoming Human : : Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World / / Zakiyyah Iman Jackson.
Winner, 2021 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, given by the National Women's Studies AssociationWinner, 2021 Harry Levin Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature AssociationWinner, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ StudiesArgues that Blackness disrupts our essential ideas of race, gen...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Sexual Cultures ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 19 hts (17 color insert, 2 b/w) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- On Becoming Human: An Introduction
- 1 Losing Manhood: Plasticity, Animality, and Opacity in the (Neo)Slave Narrative
- 2 Sense of Things: Empiricism and World in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring
- 3 “Not Our Own” Sex, Genre, and the Insect Poetics of Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild”
- 4 Organs of War: Measurement and Ecologies of Dematerialization in the Works of Wangechi Mutu and Audre Lorde
- Coda: Toward a Somatic Theory of Necropower
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- About the Author