Delectable Negro

Name: Delectable Negro
Brand: New York University Press
SKU: 9780814794623
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Autor: Dwight McBride, Vincent Woodard

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Editura: New York University Press

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Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Am...

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Autor

Dwight McBride, Vincent Woodard

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2014

Pagini

320

EAN

9780814794623

ISBN

0814794629

Enbook ID

04932822

Editura

New York University Press

Greutate

500

Dimensiuni

146 x 228 x 20

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Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence. The Delectable Negro explores these connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in the context of American literature and US slave culture. Utilizing many staples of African American literature and culture, such as the slave narratives of OlaudahEquiano, Harriet Jacobs, and Frederick Douglass, as well as other less circulated materials like James L. Smith's slave narrative, runaway slave advertisements, and numerous articles from Black newspapers published in the nineteenth century, Woodard traces the racial assumptions, political aspirations, gender codes, and philosophical frameworks that dictated both European and white American arousal towards Black males and hunger for Black male flesh. Woodard uses these texts to unpack how slaves struggled not only against social consumption, but also against endemic mechanisms of starvation and hunger designed to break them. He concludes with an examination of the controversial chain gang oral sex scene in Toni Morrison's Beloved, suggesting that even at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, we are still at a loss for language with which to describe Black male hunger within a plantation culture of consumption.

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