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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth
Language:English
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.
Series:Perverse modernities.
Subjects:
African Americans in popular culture.
Enslaved women > United States > Social conditions.
United States > Race relations > History.
Physical Description:xi, 254 pages : illustrations.
Format: Book
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.