Christina Sharpe

Monstrous Intimacies

Making Post-Slavery Subjects

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of how black subjectivity is formed at the site of the intimate encounter.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780822345916
• ISBN-10: 0822345919
• Artikelnr.: 30366661

Autorenporträt

Christina Sharpe is Associate Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Tufts University.

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