01997cam a2200373 a 4500 100128s2010 nyu b 001 0 eng 9780814740941 0814740944 9780814740958 0814740952 9780814741351 0814741355 SDU PS374 S425 E 2010 Scott, Darieck. 209450 Extravagant abjection : blackness, power, and sexuality in the African American literary imagination / Darieck Scott. New York : New York University Press, 2010. 317 p. Sexual cultures 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. HKBU library YT2025 M09 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. American fiction African American authors History and criticism. 197951 African American men in literature. 209451 Power (Social sciences) in literature. 199508 Race relations in literature. 183437 Rape in literature. 198032 Homosexuality in literature. 183436 Pornography in literature. 209452 Abjection in literature. 209453 = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 108919 108919 0 0 lcc 0 PS0374 S425 E2010 0 CGB 281984 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-09-15 2 0 PS374 S425 E 2010 1000374057 2025-09-15 00:00:00 C.1 2025-09-15 GBE