Christina Sharpe

Monstrous Intimacies

Making Post-Slavery Subjects

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Produktbeschreibung

Christina Sharpe interprets Black Atlantic visual and literary texts that grapple with the sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation, and their present-day legacies.

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Produktdetails

• Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 384g
• ISBN-13: 9780822346098
• ISBN-10: 0822346095
• Artikelnr.: 30363988

Autorenporträt

Christina Sharpe

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Making Monstrous Intimacies: Surviving Slavery, Bearing
Freedom 1
1. Gayl Jones's Corregidora and Reading the "Days That Were Pages of
Hysteria" 27
2. Bessie Head, Saartje Baartman, and Maru Redemption, Subjectification,
and the Problem of Liberation 67
3. Isaac Julien's The Attendant and the Sadomasochism of Everyday Black
Life 111
4. Kara Walker's Monstrous Intimacies 153
Notes 189
Bibliography 223
Index 243