Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects

(Part of the Perverse Modernities Series)

by Christina Sharpe

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822346095

ISBN13:9780822346098

Release Date:August 2010

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

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