The commerce of peoples : sadomasochism and African American literature /

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The Commerce of Peoples introduces a new way of reading. It puts into place a sadomasochistic framework which allows for both diachronic and synchronic analysis. By reading sadomasochistic practice as historical and defining it in terms of practices of embodiment, by alternating between analysis and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Basu, Biman
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2012.
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Sadomasochism in literature.
Sadomasochisme dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature > African American authors
Sadomasochism in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • In theory
  • Slave narratives and sadomasochism
  • The genuflected body of the masochist
  • Dominant and submissive in protest literature
  • Hybrid embodiment and an ethics of masochism
  • Perverting heterosexuality: the competent practice of the object
  • Neo-slave narratives and sadomasochism
  • Appendix: a pragmatics of the perverse: Nietzsche and sadomasochism.

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