Extravagant Abjection

Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination

Szerző: Darieck Scott

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Challenging the conception of empowerment associated with the Black Power Movement and its political...

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Szerző

Darieck Scott

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2010

oldal

327

EAN

9780814740941

ISBN

0814740944

Enbook ID

04931570

Kiadó

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Súly

566

Méretek

153 x 229 x 28

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Challenging the conception of empowerment associated with the Black Power Movement and its political and intellectual legacies in the present, Darieck Scott contends that power can be found not only in martial resistance, but, surprisingly, where the black body has been inflicted with harm or humiliation. Theorizing the relation between blackness and abjection by foregrounding often neglected depictions of the sexual exploitation and humiliation of men in works by James Weldon Johnson, Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka, and Samuel R. Delany, "Extravagant Abjection" asks: If we're racialized through domination and abjection, what is the political, personal, and psychological potential in racialization-through-abjection? Using the figure of male rape as a lens through which to examine this question, Scott argues that blackness in relation to abjection endows its inheritors with a form of counter-intuitive power; indeed, what can be thought of as a revised notion of black power. This power is found at the point at which ego, identity, body, race, and nation seem to reveal themselves as utterly penetrated and compromised, without defensible boundary. Yet in Extravagant Abjection, 'power' assumes an unexpected and paradoxical form. In arguing that blackness endows its inheritors with a surprising form of counter-intuitive power - as a resource for the political present - found at the very point of violation, "Extravagant Abjection" enriches our understanding of the construction of black male identity.

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