Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination

Contents

vii Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Blackness, Abjection, and Sexuality 1 1 Fanon’s Muscles: (Black) Power Revisited 32 2 “A Race That Could Be So Dealt With”: Terror, Time, 95 and (Black) Power 3 Slavery, Rape, and the Black Male Abject 126 Notes on Black (Power) Bottoms 153 4 The Occupied Territory: Homosexuality and History 172 in Amiri Baraka’s Black Arts 5 Porn and the N-Word: Lust, Samuel Delany’s 204 The Mad Man, and a Derangement of Body and Sense(s) Conclusion: Extravagant Abjection 257 Notes 271 Index 301 About the Author 318 ...