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Eating the Black body : miscegenation as sexual consumption in African American literature and culture, Carlyle Van Thompson

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Thompson, Carlyle Van

Summary: "In this 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."--BOOK JACKET

Language: eng

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New York, Peter Lang, c2006

Extent: xiii, 231 p.

Contents

Consuming hot Black bodies : miscegenation as sexual violence in African American literature and culture
Speaking desire and consumption of the Black body in Richard Wright's "Between the world and me"
Miscegenation as sexual consumption : the enduring legacy of America's White-supremacist culture of violence in John Oliver Killens' Youngblood
Miscegenation, monstrous memories, and misogyny as sexual consumption in Gayl Jones' Corregidora
Moving past the present : racialized sexual violence and miscegenous consumption in Octavia Butler's Kindred
White police penetrating, probing, and playing in the Black man's ass : the sadistic sodomizing of Abner Louima

Isbn: 9780820479316

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Label: Eating the Black body : miscegenation as sexual consumption in African American literature and culture

Title: Eating the Black body

Title remainder: miscegenation as sexual consumption in African American literature and culture

Statement of responsibility: Carlyle Van Thompson

Creator

Thompson, Carlyle Van

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Language: eng

Summary: "In this 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."--BOOK JACKET

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African-American literature and culture, v. 10

Cataloging source: DLC

Dewey number: 810.9/3552

Index: no index present

LC call number: PS153.N5

LC item number: T48 2006

Literary form: non fiction

Nature of contents: bibliography

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African-American literature and culture,
African American literature and culture,

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v. 10
v. 10

Label: Eating the Black body : miscegenation as sexual consumption in African American literature and culture, Carlyle Van Thompson

Publication

New York, Peter Lang, c2006

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-231)

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Contents: Consuming hot Black bodies : miscegenation as sexual violence in African American literature and culture -- Speaking desire and consumption of the Black body in Richard Wright's "Between the world and me" -- Miscegenation as sexual consumption : the enduring legacy of America's White-supremacist culture of violence in John Oliver Killens' Youngblood -- Miscegenation, monstrous memories, and misogyny as sexual consumption in Gayl Jones' Corregidora -- Moving past the present : racialized sexual violence and miscegenous consumption in Octavia Butler's Kindred -- White police penetrating, probing, and playing in the Black man's ass : the sadistic sodomizing of Abner Louima

Control code: 000027159568

Dimensions: 23 cm

Extent: xiii, 231 p.

Isbn: 9780820479316

Lccn: 2005013511

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(OCoLC)60360442
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