Extravagant abjection : blackness, power, and sexuality in the African American literary imagination /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Scott, Darieck
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York University Press, [2010]
Series:	Sexual cultures.
Subjects:	American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism. African American men in literature. Power (Social sciences) in literature. Race relations in literature. Rape in literature. Homosexuality in literature. Pornography in literature. Abjection in literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Blackness, abjection, and sexuality
Fanon's muscles: (Black) power revisited
"A race that could be so dealt with" : terror, time, and (Black) power
Slavery, rape, and the Black male abject
Notes on Black (power) bottoms
The occupied territory : homosexuality and history in Amiri Baraka's Black arts
Porn and the n-word : lust, Samuel Delany's The mad man, and a derangement of body and sense(s)
Conclusion: Extravagant abjection.