Extravagant Abjection - Blackness, Power, Sexuality in African American Literary Imagination

Informationen zum Autor Darieck Scott is Professor of African American studies at the University of California-Berkeley. He is the author of the novels Hex and Traitor to the Race, and the editor of Best Black Gay Erotica. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Darieck Scott
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.07.2010
• EAN: 9780814740958
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-4095-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Sexual Cultures (Paperback); Sexual Cultures; Sexual Cultures (Paperback)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories