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

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scott, Darieck
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2010.
Colección:Sexual cultures.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 humiliation. Theorizing the relation between blackness and abjection by foregrounding often neglected depictions of the sexual exploitation and humiliation of men in works by James Weldon Johnson, Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka, and Samuel R. Delany, Extravagant Abjection asks: If we're racialized through do.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (329 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780814786543
0814786545
0814741355
9780814741351