Monstrous intimacies : making post-slavery subjects / Christina Sharpe.
By: Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth.
Material type: BookSeries: Perverse modernities: Publisher: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010Description: xi, 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780822345916 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780822346098 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): African Americans in popular culture | Women slaves -- United States -- Social conditions | United States -- Race relations -- HistoryDDC classification: 305.896/073
Contents:
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.
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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.
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