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Eating the Black body miscegenation as sexual consumption in African American literature and culture

Title
Eating the Black body [electronic resource] : 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
1 online resource (xiii, 231 p.)
Series Statement
African American literature and culture, 1528-3887 ; v. 10
Uniform Title
  • Eating the Black body (Online)
  • African-American literature and culture ; v. 10.
Alternative Title
Eating the Black body (Online)
Subject
  • American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
  • African Americans > Intellectual life
  • Sexual abuse victims > United States
  • African Americans > Crimes against
  • African Americans in literature
  • Miscegenation in literature
  • Human body in literature
  • Violence in literature
  • Race in literature
  • Sex in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-231).
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2005013511
OCLC
ssj0000081535
Author
Thompson, Carlyle Van.
Title
Eating the Black body [electronic resource] : 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. 10
African-American literature and culture ; v. 10.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-231).
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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