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Extravagant abjectionDarieck Scott

Extravagant abjection

2010327 pages
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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.

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2 editions
  • Other · English · 2010
    New York University Press · 327 pages · 9780814740941
  • Other · English · 2010
    New York University Press · 327 pages · 9780814786543
Race relations in literatureAfrican American men in literatureHistory and criticismRape in literatureAfrican American authorsPornography in literatureAmerican fictionPower (Social sciences) in literature