Extravagant abjection
blackness, power, and sexuality in the African American literary imagination
About this book
Summary: Challenging the conception of empowerment associated with the Black Power Movement and its political and intellectual legacies, this title contends that power can be found not only in martial resistance, but, surprisingly, where the black body has been inflicted with harm or humiliation.
Subjects
Race relations in literatureAfrican American men in literatureHistory and criticismRape in literatureAfrican American authorsPornography in literatureAmerican fictionPower (Social sciences) in literatureAbjection in literatureHomosexuality in literatureAmerican fiction, african american authors, history and criticismAfrican americans in literatureAmerican fiction--african american authors--history and criticismPs374.n4 s36 2010813/.5409896073