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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Sexual cultures.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (329 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814786543 0814786545 0814741355 9780814741351 |