Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Musser, Amber Jamilla

Publication

New York : New York University Press, [2018]

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Details

Description

ix, 237 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

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

Series Statement

Sexual cultures

Uniform Title

Sexual cultures.

Subjects

• Blacks > Sexual behavior
• Feminism
• Sex (Psychology)
• Black author
• African American women > Sexual behavior
• Lesbianism
• Sexual excitement
• Sensuality
• Women, Black > Sexual behavior
• African Americans > Sexual behavior
• African Americans > Psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-219) and index.

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?

Call Number

Sc E 19-970

ISBN

• 9781479807031
• 1479807036
• 9781479830954
• 147983095X

LCCN

2018011913

OCLC

1029088069

Author

Musser, Amber Jamilla, author.

Title

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

Publisher

New York : New York University Press, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Sexual cultures

Sexual cultures.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-219) and index.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 19-970