The delectable Negro : human consumption and homoeroticism within U. S. slave culture / Vincent Woodard ; edited by Justin A. Joyce and Dwight A. McBride ; foreword by E. Patrick Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woodard, Vincent, 1971-2008, author.

Johnson, Patrick E., author of introduction, etc.

Contributor:

Joyce, Justin A., editor.

McBride, Dwight A., editor.

Series:

Sexual cultures

Sexual Cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved persons--Southern States--Social conditions.

Enslaved persons.

African American men--Southern States--Social conditions.

African American men.

Plantation life--Southern States--History.

Plantation life.

Starvation--Social aspects.

History.

Starvation.

Social conditions.

Southern States.

Starvation--Social aspects--Southern States--History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 pages): illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London, England : New York University Press, 2014.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Scholars of U.S. and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence. The Delectable Negro explores these connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in the context of American literature and U.S. slave culture. Utilizing many staples of African American literature and culture, such as the slave narratives of Olaudah Equiano, Harriet Jacobs, and Frederick Douglass, as well as other less-circulated materials like James L. Smith's slave narrative and numerous articles from nineteenth-century black newspapers, Woodard traces the racial assumptions, political aspirations, gender codes, and philosophical frameworks that dictated both European and white American arousal toward black males and hunger for black, male flesh. Woodard uses these texts to unpack how slaves struggled not only against social consumption, but also against endemic mechanisms of starvation and hunger designed to break them. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Cannibalism in Transatlantic Context 29

2 Sex, Honor, and Human Consumption 59

3 A Tale of Hunger Retold: Ravishment and Hunger in F. Douglass's Life and Writing 95

4 Domestic Rituals of Consumption 127

5 Eating Nat Turner 171

6 The Hungry Nigger 269.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Other Format:

Print version: Woodard, Vincent, 1971-2008. Delectable Negro : human consumption and homoeroticism within U. S. slave culture.

ISBN:

9781479815807

OCLC:

879610632

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.