Beautiful bottom, beautiful shame : where "Black" meets "queer" / Kathryn Bond Stockton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stockton, Kathryn Bond, 1958-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Series Q.

Series Q

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Homosexuality in literature.

Homosexuality and literature--United States.

Homosexuality and literature.

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

Shame in literature.

African Americans in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The relationship between black queer subjects and debasement as portrayed within popular culture texts and films.

Contents:

Embracing Shame: "Black" and "Queer" in Debasement

Cloth Wounds, or When Queers Are Martyred to Clothes: Debasements of a Fabricated Skin

Bottom Values: Anal Economics in the History of Black Neighborhoods

When Are Dirty Details and Scenes Compelling? Tucked in the Cuts of Interracial Anal Rape

Erotic Corpse: Homosexual Miscegenation and the Decomposition of Attraction

Prophylactics and Brains: Slavery in the Cybernetic Age of AIDS.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-264) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

ISBN:

9780822387985

0822387980

OCLC:

226067800