The Delectable Negro - Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within Us Slave Culture

Informationen zum Autor Vincent Woodard (1971-2008) was Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He received his PhD in English from the University of Texas, Austin in 2002. Klappentext Takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence. Zusammenfassung Takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously! focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder! and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence.

Product details

• Authors: Vincent Woodard, Vincent/ Joyce Woodard
• Assisted by: Justin A. Joyce (Editor), Dwight McBride (Editor)
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.2014
• EAN: 9780814794616
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-9461-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Sexual Cultures
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous