LEADER 04028oam 22008414a 450 001 996312641603316 005 20240522181040.0 010 $a0-520-96887-5 024 7 $a10.1525/luminos.45 035 $a(CKB)4100000003666481 035 $a(OAPEN)649674 035 $a(DE-B1597)539685 035 $a(OCoLC)1028980512 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520968875 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse72985 035 $a(ScCtBLL)c898a5d4-f0d7-4ada-bbb3-48320b708b7c 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31591 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000003666481 100 $a20170918h20182018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmu#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Erotics of History$eAn Atlantic African Example /$fDonald L. Donham 210 $aOakland$cUniversity of California Press$d2018 210 1$aBerkeley, CA :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 136 pages) $cillustrations; PDF, digital file(s) 311 08$a9780520296312 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aHeading south : an introduction -- Ethnography interruptus -- The concept of the fetish -- African origins -- The poverty of sexuality -- African sexual extraversion and getting in bed with Robert Mapplethorpe -- Para-ethnography, golf, and the internet -- White slavery -- Love and money, romance and scam -- Conclusion : towards an understanding of erotics. 330 $a"The Erotics of History challenges long-standing notions of sexuality as stable and context-free--as something that individuals discover about themselves. Rather, Donald L. Donham argues that historical circumstance, local social pressure, and the cultural construction of much beyond sex condition the erotic. Donham makes this argument in relation to the centuries-old conversation on the fetish, applied to a highly unusual neighborhood in Atlantic Africa. There, local men, soon to be married to local women, are involved in long-term sexual relationships with European men. On the African side, these couplings are motivated by the pleasures of cosmopolitan connection and foreign commodities. On the other side, Europeans tend to fetishize Africans' race, while a few search to become slaves in master/ slave relationships. At its most wide ranging, The Erotics of History attempts to show that it is history, both personal and collective, in reversals and reenactments, that finally produces sexual excitement."--Provided by publisher. 606 $aSex role$zAfrica$xHistory 606 $aErotica$zAfrica$xHistory 606 $aFetishism (Sexual behavior)$zAfrica$xHistory 607 $aAfrica$xSocial conditions$xHistory 607 $aAfrica$xSexual behavior$xHistory 610 $aadult. 610 $aafrican fetish. 610 $aafrican. 610 $aatlantic africa. 610 $abdsm. 610 $acosmopolitan connection. 610 $acultural construction. 610 $aerotic. 610 $aeuropean men. 610 $afetish. 610 $aforeign commodities. 610 $agay men. 610 $agender studies. 610 $ahistorical circumstance. 610 $aindividual discovery. 610 $alearning about sex. 610 $algbt demographic studies. 610 $alocal social pressure. 610 $along term sexual relationships. 610 $adominant submissive relationships. 610 $asex condition. 610 $asexual excitement. 610 $asexuality. 610 $aenslaved persons. 615 0$aSex role$xHistory. 615 0$aErotica$xHistory. 615 0$aFetishism (Sexual behavior)$xHistory. 676 $a305.3096 700 $aDonham$b Donald L$g(Donald Lewis),$01023713 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996312641603316 996 $aThe Erotics of History$92432303 997 $aUNISA