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Monstrous intimacies : making post-slavery subjects / Christina Sharpe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth.
- Series:
- Perverse modernities.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Perverse modernities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans in popular culture.
- Enslaved women--United States--Social conditions.
- Enslaved women.
- United States--Race relations--History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (269 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Gayl Jones's Corregidora and reading the "Days that were pages of hysteria"
- Bessie Head, Saartje Baartman, and Maru : redemption, subjectification, and the problem of liberation
- Isaac Julien's The attendant and the sadomasochism of everyday black life
- Kara Walker's Monstrous intimacies.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- ISBN:
- 9786613065162
- 9781283065160
- 1283065169
- 9780822391524
- 082239152X
- OCLC:
- 659520124
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