Monstrous Intimacies - Making Post-Slavery Subjects

Informationen zum Autor Christina Sharpe is Associate Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Tufts University. Klappentext A study of how black subjectivity is formed at the site of the intimate encounter. Zusammenfassung Christina Sharpe interprets Black Atlantic visual and literary texts that grapple with the sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation! and their present-day legacies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Making Monstrous Intimacies: Surviving Slavery, Bearing Freedom 1 1. Gayl Jones's Corregidora and Reading the "Days That Were Pages of Hysteria" 27 2. Bessie Head, Saartje Baartman, and Maru Redemption, Subjectification, and the Problem of Liberation 67 3. Isaac Julien's The Attendant and the Sadomasochism of Everyday Black Life 111 4. Kara Walker's Monstrous Intimacies 153 Notes 189 Bibliography 223 Index 243

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• Authors: Christina Sharpe, Christina Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth Sharpe
• Assisted by: judith Halberstam (Editor), Judith Halberstam (Editor), Lisa Lowe (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.09.2010
• EAN: 9780822345916
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4591-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities; Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities: A Series; Perverse Modernities
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology