LEADER 04378nam 2200805Ia 450 001 9910811980403321 005 20240516130025.0 010 $a0-8147-8654-5 010 $a0-8147-4135-5 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814786543 035 $a(CKB)2560000000054743 035 $a(EBL)866007 035 $a(OCoLC)779828354 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000469043 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11272210 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000469043 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10510780 035 $a(PQKB)10956776 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001326175 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC866007 035 $a(OCoLC)697182468 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse4832 035 $a(DE-B1597)547918 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814786543 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL866007 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10437866 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000054743 100 $a20100128d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aExtravagant abjection $eblackness, power, and sexuality in the African American literary imagination /$fDarieck Scott 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (329 p.) 225 1 $aSexual cultures 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-4095-2 311 $a0-8147-4094-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Fanon?s Muscles --$t2. ?A Race That Could Be So Dealt With? --$t3. Slavery, Rape, and the Black Male Abject --$t4. The Occupied Territory --$t5. Porn and the N-Word --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aChallenging the conception of empowerment associated with the Black Power Movement and its political and intellectual legacies in the present, Darieck Scott contends that power can be found not only in martial resistance, but, surprisingly, where the black body has been inflicted with harm or humiliation.Theorizing the relation between blackness and abjection by foregrounding often neglected depictions of the sexual exploitation and humiliation of men in works by James Weldon Johnson, Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka, and Samuel R. Delany, Extravagant Abjection asks: If we?re racialized through domination and abjection, what is the political, personal, and psychological potential in racialization-through-abjection? Using the figure of male rape as a lens through which to examine this question, Scott argues that blackness in relation to abjection endows its inheritors with a form of counter-intuitive power?indeed, what can be thought of as a revised notion of black power. This power is found at the point at which ego, identity, body, race, and nation seem to reveal themselves as utterly penetrated and compromised, without defensible boundary. Yet in Extravagant Abjection, ?power? assumes an unexpected and paradoxical form.In arguing that blackness endows its inheritors with a surprising form of counter?intuitive power?as a resource for the political present?found at the very point of violation, Extravagant Abjection enriches our understanding of the construction of black male identity. 410 0$aSexual cultures. 606 $aAbjection in literature 606 $aAfrican American men in literature 606 $aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHomosexuality in literature 606 $aPornography in literature 606 $aPower (Social sciences) in literature 606 $aRace relations in literature 606 $aRape in literature 615 0$aAbjection in literature. 615 0$aAfrican American men in literature. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHomosexuality in literature. 615 0$aPornography in literature. 615 0$aPower (Social sciences) in literature. 615 0$aRace relations in literature. 615 0$aRape in literature. 676 $a813.5409896073 700 $aScott$b Darieck$0707270 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811980403321 996 $aExtravagant abjection$94004890 997 $aUNINA