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Eating the Black body : miscegenation as sexual consumption in African American literature and culture
- Title
- Eating the Black body : miscegenation as sexual consumption in African American literature and culture / Carlyle Van Thompson.
- Author
- Thompson, Carlyle Van.
- Publication
- New York : Peter Lang, c2006.
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- Description
- xiii, 231 p.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- African American literature and culture, 1528-3887 ; v. 10
- Uniform Title
- African-American literature and culture ; v. 10.
- Subjects
- Sex in literature
- African Americans in literature
- American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
- Black author
- Miscegenation in literature
- Race in literature
- Human body in literature
- Sexual abuse victims > United States
- African Americans > Crimes against
- African Americans > Intellectual life
- Violence in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-231).
- Contents
- Consuming hot Black bodies : miscegenation as sexual violence in African American literature and culture -- Speaking desire and consumption of the Black body in Richard Wright's "Between the world and me" -- Miscegenation as sexual consumption : the enduring legacy of America's White-supremacist culture of violence in John Oliver Killens' Youngblood -- Miscegenation, monstrous memories, and misogyny as sexual consumption in Gayl Jones' Corregidora -- Moving past the present : racialized sexual violence and miscegenous consumption in Octavia Butler's Kindred -- White police penetrating, probing, and playing in the Black man's ass : the sadistic sodomizing of Abner Louima.
- Call Number
- Sc D 06-1240
- ISBN
- 0820479314 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005013511
- OCLC
- 60360442
- Author
- Thompson, Carlyle Van.
- Title
- Eating the Black body : miscegenation as sexual consumption in African American literature and culture / Carlyle Van Thompson.
- Imprint
- New York : Peter Lang, c2006.
- Series
- African American literature and culture, 1528-3887 ; v. 10African-American literature and culture ; v. 10.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-231).
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 06-1240