Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects by Sharpe, Christina
Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects by Sharpe, Christina

Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects

Arguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation have continued to shape black...
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Author: Christina Sharpe
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Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects by Sharpe, Christina

Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects

$85.96
Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects by Sharpe, Christina

Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects

$85.96
Author: Christina Sharpe
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Arguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation have continued to shape black and white subjectivities into the present, Christina Sharpe interprets African diasporic and Black Atlantic visual and literary texts that address those "monstrous intimacies" and their repetition as constitutive of post-slavery subjectivity. Her illuminating readings juxtapose Frederick Douglass's narrative of witnessing the brutal beating of his Aunt Hester with Essie Mae Washington-Williams's declaration of freedom in Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond, as well as the "generational genital fantasies" depicted in Gayl Jones's novel Corregidora with a firsthand account of such "monstrous intimacies" in the journals of an antebellum South Carolina senator, slaveholder, and vocal critic of miscegenation. Sharpe explores the South African-born writer Bessie Head's novel Maru-about race, power, and liberation in Botswana-in light of the history of the KhoiSan woman Saartje Baartman, who was displayed in Europe as the "Hottentot Venus" in the nineteenth century. Reading Isaac Julien's film The Attendant, Sharpe takes up issues of representation, slavery, and the sadomasochism of everyday black life. Her powerful meditation on intimacy, subjection, and subjectivity culminates in an analysis of Kara Walker's black silhouettes, and the critiques leveled against both the silhouettes and the artist.

Author: Christina Sharpe
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 09/07/2010
Pages: 268
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780822346098

About the Author

Christina Sharpe is Associate Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Tufts University.


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