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The Black body in ecstasy : reading race, reading pornography / Jennifer C. Nash.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nash, Jennifer C., 1980-
- Series:
- Next wave.
- Next wave
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pornography--Social aspects--United States.
- Pornography.
- African American women in motion pictures.
- African American women--Sexual behavior.
- African American women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (230 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In The Black Body in Ecstasy, Jennifer C. Nash rewrites black feminism's theory of representation. Her analysis moves beyond black feminism's preoccupation with injury and recovery to consider how racial fictions can create a space of agency and even pleasure for black female subjects. Nash's innovative readings of hardcore pornographic films from the 1970s and 1980s develop a new method of analyzing racialized pornography that focuses on black women's pleasures in blackness: delights in toying with and subverting blackness, moments of racialized excitement, deliberate enactments of hyperbolic
- Contents:
- Archives of pain : reading the Black feminist theoretical archive
- Speaking sex/speaking race : Lialeh and the Blax-porn-tation aesthetic
- Race-pleasures : sexworld and the ecstatic Black female body
- Laughing matters : race-humor on the pornographic screen
- On refusal : racial promises and the silver age screen
- Reading ecstasy.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822377030
- 0822377039
- OCLC:
- 1143275338
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