Eating the Black body : miscegenation as sexual consumption in African American literature and culture / Carlyle Van Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Carlyle Van.

Series:

African-American literature and culture ; v. 10.

African American literature and culture, 1528-3887 ; v. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body in literature.

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans.

Sexual abuse victims--United States.

Sexual abuse victims.

African Americans--Crimes against.

African Americans in literature.

Miscegenation (Racist theory) in literature.

Violence in literature.

Race in literature.

Sex in literature.

American literature--History and criticism--African American authors--United States.

Sexual abuse victims--Crimes against.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 231 p. )

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In this exploration of racial subjugation and its aftermath, Carlyle Van Thompson illumines the racialized sexual desire that reduces Black people to commodities for consumption. Eating the Black Body examines the often-sadistic forms of sexual violence during the period of slavery and its aftermath. By looking at one poem and three novels - Richard Wright's Between the World and Me, John Oliver Killens' Youngblood, Gayl Jones' Corregidora, and Octavia Butler's Kindred - that examine slavery and the Jim Crow period, Thompson investigates a wide variety of Black bodies as sites of miscegenation and sexual desire. Thompson also examines a horrific case of White male police brutality in New York City in which a Black man was sodomized.

Bold and persuasively argued, Eating the Black Body will engage readers in a broad range of literary, historical, and cultural studies."--Jacket.

Contents:

Consuming hot Black bodies : miscegenation as sexual violence in African American literature and culture

Speaking desire and consumption of the Black body in Richard Wright's "Between the world and me"

Miscegenation as sexual consumption : the enduring legacy of America's White-supremacist culture of violence in John Oliver Killens' Youngblood

Miscegenation, monstrous memories, and misogyny as sexual consumption in Gayl Jones' Corregidora

Moving past the present : racialized sexual violence and miscegenous consumption in Octavia Butler's Kindred

White police penetrating, probing, and playing in the Black man's ass : the sadistic sodomizing of Abner Louima.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-231).

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph