Sensual excess : queer femininity and brown jouissance / Amber Jamilla Musser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Musser, Amber Jamilla, author.

Series:

Sexual cultures.

Sexual Cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Sexual behavior.

African Americans.

Black people--Sexual behavior.

Black people.

African American women--Sexual Behavior.

African American women.

Women, Black--Sexual behavior.

Women, Black.

African Americans--Psychology.

Feminism.

Lesbianism.

Sexual excitement.

Sensuality.

Sex (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2018]

Summary:

"In Sensual Excess, Amber Jamilla Musser imagines epistemologies of sensuality that emerge from fleshiness. To do so, she works against the framing of black and brown bodies as sexualized, objectified, and abject, and offers multiple ways of thinking with and through sensation and aesthetics. Each chapter draws our attention to particular aspects of pornotropic capture that black and brown bodies must always negotiate. Though these technologies differ according to the nature of their encounters with white supremacy, together they add to our understanding of the ways that structures of domination produce violence and work to contain bodies and pleasures within certain legible parameters. To do so, Sensual Excess analyzes moments of brown jouissance that exceed these constraints. These ruptures illuminate multiple epistemologies of selfhood and sensuality that offer frameworks for minoritarian knowledge production which is designed to enable one to sit with uncertainty. Through examinations of installations and performances like Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party, Kara Walker's A Subtlety, Patty Chang's In Love and Nao Bustamante's Neapolitan, Musser unpacks the relationships between racialized sexuality and consumption to interrogate foundational concepts in psychoanalytic theory, critical race studies, feminism, and queer theory. In so doing, Sensual Excess offers a project of knowledge production focused not on mastery, but on sensing and imagining otherwise, whatever and wherever that might be."--Publisher's description

Contents:

Introduction: Brown jouissance and inhabitations of the pornotrope

Eating out : the labial, consumption, and the scalar

Surface play : flash, friction, and self-reflection

Deep listening, belonging, and the pleasures of brown jouissance

Performing witness: voice, interiority, and diaspora

Weeping machines : automaticity, looping, and the possibilities of perversion

Femme aggression and the value of labor

Coda: elsewhere, is the mother a place?

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

About the author

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (EBSCOhost, viewed on May 12, 2023).

ISBN:

9781479845491

1479845493

OCLC:

1056109762