Author

Publication

2010 - NYU Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

81,750 words, Guess

Page Count

327 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archiveextravagantabjec0000scot
  • ISBN-139780814740941
  • ISBN-139780814740958
  • ISBN-100814740944
  • ISBN-100814740952
and 8 more
  • ISBN-100814741355
  • ISBN-139780814741351
  • Library of Congress Control Number2010002954
  • OCLC Control Number498940297
  • Better World Books9780814740941
  • Better World Books9780814740958
  • Better World Books9780814741351
  • Open LibraryOL24068505M

Classifications

  • DDC813/.5409896073
  • LCCPS374.N4 S36 2010
  • LCCPS374.N4S36 2010

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

Series Statement

  • Sexual cultures

Other Editions

  • Extravagant abjection: blackness, power, and sexuality in the African American literary imaginationNYU Press2010-01-01

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