Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Making monstrous intimacies: surviving slavery, bearing freedom
  • Gayl Jones's Corregidora and reading the "Days that were pages of hysteria"
  • Bessie Head, Saartje Baartman, and Maru : redemption, subjectification, and the problem of liberation
  • Isaac Julien's The attendant and the sadomasochism of everyday black life
  • Kara Walker's Monstrous intimacies.