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blackness, power, and sexuality in the African American literary imagination

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"Extravagant abjection" was published by New York University Press in 2010 - New York, it has 327 pages and the language of the book is English.


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  • Title: Extravagant abjection
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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 327
  • Publisher: New York University Press
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  • Publish Location: New York

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  • Pagination: p. cm.

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"Extravagant abjection" Table Of Contents:

  • 1- Introduction
  • 2- Fanon's muscles: (Black) power revisited
  • 3- "A race that could be so dealt with" : terror, time, and (Black) power
  • 4- Slavery, rape, and the Black male abject
  • 5- Notes on Black (power) bottoms
  • 6- The occupied territory : homosexuality and history in Amiri Baraka's Black Arts
  • 7- Porn and the n-word : lust, Samuel Delany's the Mad man, and a derangement of body and sense(s)
  • 8- Conclusion : extravagant abjection.

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Summary: 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.

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