Monstrous intimacies : making post-slavery subjects / Christina Sharpe.

Author/creator Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.
Descriptionxi, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
African Americans in popular culture.
Enslaved women--United States. --Social conditions.
United States--Race relations. --History.

SeriesPerverse modernities
Perverse modernities. ^A486667
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.
LCCN 2010011135
ISBN9780822345916 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822345919 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780822346098 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0822346095 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks E185.625 .S537 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold