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Informationen zum Autor Monica Michlin teaches at the Université Paris-Sorbonne. Jean-Paul Rocchi teaches at the Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée. Klappentext An important collection which explores the complex interrelationships between race, gender, and sex as these are conceptualised within contemporary thought. Zusammenfassung An important collection which explores the complex interrelationships between race! gender! and sex as these are conceptualised within contemporary thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Monica Michlin (Universite Paris-Sorbonne! France) and Jean-Paul Rocchi (Universite Paris -Est Marne-la-Vallee! France) Exordium: Writing and the Relation: From Textual Coloniality to South African Black Consciousness Rozena Maart (University of KwaZulu Natal! Durban! South Africa) I) Challenging Hegemonic Gender Identities: Postcolonial Backlash & Being Proper: Femininity Blackness Sexuality and Transgender in the Public Eye Antje Schuhmann (Witwatersrand University! Johannesburg! South Africa) Productive Investments: Masculinities and Economies in Fisher's The Walls of Jericho Eva Boesenberg (Humboldt-Universitat! Berlin! Germany) 'I Hugged Myself': First-Person Narration as an Agential Act in Octavia Butler's "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" Florian Bast (Universitat Leipzig! Germany) II) Nonconformity and Narrative Theorizing: Benjamin Franklin's Ethnic Drag-Notes on Abolition! Satire! and Affect Carsten Junker (Bremen University! Germany) "Weh eye nuh see heart nuh leap": Claude McKay's Literary Drag Performance in Banana Bottom Jarrett H. Brown (College of the Holy Cross! USA) The Souls of Black Gay Folk: The Black Arts Movement and Melvin Dixon's Revision of Du Boisian Double Consciousness in Vanishing Rooms Charles Nero (Bates College! USA) III) Upsurges of Desire: "Risking Sensuality": Toni Morrison's Erotics of Writing Claudine Raynaud (Universite Paul-Valery! Montpellier 3! France) Cultures of Melancholia: Theorizing Desire and the Black Body Laura Sarnelli (University of Naples "L'Orientale"! Italy) Richard Wright's Poetics of Black Being: Metaphor! Desire! and Doing Rebecka Rutledge Fisher (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill! USA) IV) Epistemological Genealogies and Prospections: On the Monstrous Threat of Reasoned Black Desire Lewis R. Gordon (University of Connecticut at Storrs! USA) Revising Jezebel Politics: Toward a New Black Sexual Ethic Jennifer S. Leath (Yale University! USA) The Challenge of Black Feminist Desire: Abolish Property Sabine Broeck (Bremen University! Germany) ...
