The commerce of peoples : sadomasochism and African American literature / Biman Basu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Basu, Biman.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

Sadomasochism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Commerce of Peoples introduces a new way of reading. It puts into place a sadomasochistic framework which allows for both diachronic and synchronic analysis. By reading sadomasochistic practice as historical and defining it in terms of practices of embodiment, by alternating between analysis and synthesis, between specific texts and general principles, it provides a new theoretical framework and a new methodology for the analysis of literature and culture. </s

Contents:

In theory

Slave narratives and sadomasochism

The genuflected body of the masochist

Dominant and submissive in protest literature

Hybrid embodiment and an ethics of masochism

Perverting heterosexuality: the competent practice of the object

Neo-slave narratives and sadomasochism

Appendix: a pragmatics of the perverse: Nietzsche and sadomasochism.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

979-82-16-32710-3

1-280-68422-4

9786613661166

0-7391-6744-8

OCLC:

854519946