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040 _aSDU
050 0 0 _aPS374
_bS425 E 2010
100 1 _aScott, Darieck.
_9209450
245 1 0 _aExtravagant abjection :
_bblackness, power, and sexuality in the African American literary imagination /
_cDarieck Scott.
260 _aNew York :
_bNew York University Press,
_c2010.
300 _a317 p.
490 1 _aSexual cultures
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
505 0 _aHKBU library
518 _aYT2025 M09
520 8 _aSummary: 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.
650 0 _aAmerican fiction
_xAfrican American authors
_xHistory and criticism.
_9197951
650 0 _aAfrican American men in literature.
_9209451
650 0 _aPower (Social sciences) in literature.
_9199508
650 0 _aRace relations in literature.
_9183437
650 0 _aRape in literature.
_9198032
650 0 _aHomosexuality in literature.
_9183436
650 0 _aPornography in literature.
_9209452
650 0 _aAbjection in literature.
_9209453
900 _a= C.1 SDU
942 _cGBE
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999 _c108919
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