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

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

Yazar
Scott, Darieck.

ISBN
9780814786543

Yazar Ek Girişi
Scott, Darieck.

Basım Bilgisi
1st ed.

Fiziksel Tanımlama
1 online resource (329 pages)

Seri
Sexual Cultures

İçerik
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Blackness, Abjection, and Sexuality -- 1 Fanon's Muscles: (Black) Power Revisited -- 2 "A Race That Could Be So Dealt With": Terror, Time, and (Black) Power -- 3 Slavery, Rape, and the Black Male Abject -- Notes on Black (Power) Bottoms -- 4 The Occupied Territory: Homosexuality and History in Amiri Baraka's Black Arts -- 5 Porn and the N-Word: Lust, Samuel Delany's The Mad Man, and a Derangement of Body and Sense(s) -- Conclusion: Extravagant Abjection -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- About the Author.

Özet
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 domination and abjection, what is the political, personal, and psychological potential in racialization-through-abjection? Using the figure of male rape as a lens through which to examine this question, Scott argues that blackness in relation to abjection endows its inheritors with a form of counter-intuitive power-indeed, what can be thought of as a revised notion of black power. This power is found at the point at which ego, identity, body, race, and nation seem to reveal themselves as utterly penetrated and compromised, without defensible boundary. Yet in Extravagant Abjection, "power" assumes an unexpected and paradoxical form. In arguing that blackness endows its inheritors with a surprising form of counter-intuitive power-as a resource for the political present-found at the very point of violation, Extravagant Abjection enriches our understanding of the construction of black male identity.

Notlar
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Konu Başlığı
Abjection in literature.
 
African American men in literature.
 
American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
 
Homosexuality in literature.
 
Pornography in literature.
 
Power (Social sciences) in literature.
 
Race relations in literature.

Tür
Electronic books.

Elektronik Erişim
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LibraryMateryal TürüDemirbaş NumarasıYer NumarasıDurumu/İade Tarihi
IYTE LibraryE-Kitap1240465-1001PS374 .N4 -- S36 2010 EBEbrary E-Books