Monstrous intimacies
Subtitle: making post-slavery subjects
By: Christina Sharpe
Series: Perverse modernities; Perverse modernities
Publisher: Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780822345916; 9780822346098
Subjects: Social conditions; Race relations; African Americans in popular culture; Women slaves; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-242) and index.
Table of contents: title: Gayl Jones's Corregidora and reading the "Days that were pages of hysteria"; title: Bessie Head, Saartje Baartman, and Maru : redemption, subjectification, and the problem of liberation; title: Isaac Julien's The attendant and the sadomasochism of everyday black life; title: Kara Walker's Monstrous intimacies.