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Eating the Black Body
Miscegenation as Sexual Consumption in African American Literature and Culture

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In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation and its aftermath, Carlyle Van Thompson illumines the racialized sexual desire that reduces Black people to commodities for consumption. Eating the Black Body examines the often-sadistic forms of sexual violence during the period of slavery and its aftermath. By looking at one poem and three novels - Richard Wright's Between the World and Me, John Oliver Killens' Youngblood, Gayl Jones' Corregidora, and Octavia Butler's Kindred - that examine slavery and the Jim Crow period, Thompson investigates a wide variety of Black bodies as sites of miscegenation and sexual desire. Thompson also examines a horrific case of White male police brutality in New York City in which a Black man was sodomized. Bold and persuasively argued, Eating the Black Body will engage readers in a broad range of literary, historical, and cultural studies.

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The Author: Carlyle Van Thompson is Associate Professor of African American and American literature at Medgar Evers College, the City University of New York. He received his Ph.D. in English and comparative literature from Columbia University. He is the author of The Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination (Peter Lang, 2004), as well as numerous articles in professional journals and book reviews.


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Authors Carlyle Van Thompson, Carlyle V. Thompson
Publisher Peter Lang
 
Content Book
Product form Paperback / Softback
Publication date 31.05.2016
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries
 
EAN 9780820479316
ISBN 978-0-8204-7931-6
Pages 231
Dimensions (packing) 15 x 1.3 x 22.5 cm
Weight (packing) 360 g
 
Series African-American Literature and Culture > .10
African-American Literature and Culture > 10
African-American Literature and Culture Expanding and Exploding the Boundaries
 

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