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BL
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846311
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Scott, Darieck
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Extravagant abjection : : blackness, power, and sexuality in the African American literary imagination /\ Darieck Scott.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: New York University Press,, ©2010.
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| Series Statement
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Sexual cultures
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1 online resource (x, 317 pages).
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| ISBN
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0814741355
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0814740944
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0814740952
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9780814740941
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9780814740958
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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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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Abjection in literature.
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African American men in literature.
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American fiction-- African American authors-- History and criticism.
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Homosexuality in literature.
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Pornography in literature.
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Power (Social sciences) in literature.
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Race relations in literature.
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Rape in literature.
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Abjection in literature.
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African American men in literature.
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American fiction-- African American authors.
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Demütigung-- Motiv-- Roman-- amerikanischer-- Afroamerikanische Autoren.
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Erniedrigung
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Erotik
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Gewalt
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Gewalt-- Motiv-- Roman-- amerikanischer-- Afroamerikanische Autoren.
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Homosexuality in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Literatur
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Pornography in literature.
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Power (Social sciences) in literature.
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Race relations in literature.
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Rape in literature.
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Roman-- amerikanischer-- Afroamerikanische Autoren-- Motiv-- Demütigung.
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Roman-- amerikanischer-- Afroamerikanische Autoren-- Motiv-- Gewalt.
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Schwarze
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USA
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.5409896073
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| LC Classification
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PS374.N4S36 2010eb
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