Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth.

Monstrous intimacies : making post-slavery subjects / Christina Sharpe. - Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010. - xi, 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Perverse modernities . - Perverse modernities. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-242) and index.

Gayl Jones's Corregidora and reading the "Days that were pages of hysteria" -- Bessie Head, Saartje Baartman, and Maru : redemption, subjectification, and the problem of liberation -- Isaac Julien's The attendant and the sadomasochism of everyday black life -- Kara Walker's Monstrous intimacies.

9780822345916 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822346098 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2010011135


African Americans in popular culture.
Women slaves--Social conditions.--United States


United States--Race relations--History.

E185.625 / .S537 2010

305.896/073

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