Eating the Black body : miscegenation as sexual consumption in African American literature and culture / [electronic resource]
Thompson, Carlyle Van.
New York : Peter Lang,
c2006.
"In this exploration of racial subjugation and its aftermath, Carlyle Van Thompson illumines the racialized sexual desire that reduces Black people to commodities for consumption. Eating the Black Body examines the often-sadistic forms of sexual violence during the period of slavery and its aftermath. By looking at one poem and three novels - Richard Wright's Between the World and Me, John Oliver Killens' Youngblood, Gayl Jones' Corregidora, and Octavia Butler's Kindred - that examine slavery and the Jim Crow period, Thompson investigates a wide variety of Black bodies as sites of miscegenation and sexual desire. Thompson also examines a horrific case of White male police brutality in New York City in which a Black man was sodomized.
Bold and persuasively argued, Eating the Black Body will engage readers in a broad range of literary, historical, and cultural studies."--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-231).
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.
"In this exploration of racial subjugation and its aftermath, Carlyle Van Thompson illumines the racialized sexual desire that reduces Black people to commodities for consumption. Eating the Black Body examines the often-sadistic forms of sexual violence during the period of slavery and its aftermath. By looking at one poem and three novels - Richard Wright's Between the World and Me, John Oliver Killens' Youngblood, Gayl Jones' Corregidora, and Octavia Butler's Kindred - that examine slavery and the Jim Crow period, Thompson investigates a wide variety of Black bodies as sites of miscegenation and sexual desire. Thompson also examines a horrific case of White male police brutality in New York City in which a Black man was sodomized.
Bold and persuasively argued, Eating the Black Body will engage readers in a broad range of literary, historical, and cultural studies."--Jacket.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Human body in literature.
American literature
African Americans
Sexual abuse victims
African Americans
African Americans in literature.
Miscegenation in literature.
Violence in literature.
Race in literature.
Sex in literature.
American literature
Sex in literature
African Americans
Sexual abuse victims
African Americans
African Americans in literature
Miscegenation in literature
Human body in literature
Violence in literature
Race in literature
English
Languages & Literatures
American Literature