Title: Extravagant abjection
Subtitle: blackness, power, and sexuality in the African American literary imagination
Description: Summary: Challenging the conception of empowerment associated with the Black Power Movement and its political and intellectual legacies, this title contends that power can be found not only in martial resistance, but, surprisingly, where the black body has been inflicted with harm or humiliation.
Subjects: Race relations in literature, African American men in literature, History and criticism, Rape in literature, African American authors, Pornography in literature, American fiction, Power (Social sciences) in literature, Abjection in literature, Homosexuality in literature, American fiction, african american authors, history and criticism, African americans in literature, American fiction--african american authors--history and criticism, Ps374.n4 s36 2010, 813/.5409896073