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10%OFFVincent Woodard - The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture (Sexual Cultures) - 9780814794623 - V9780814794623
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The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture (Sexual Cultures)

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Description for The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture (Sexual Cultures) Paperback. Takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence. Series: Sexual Cultures. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTS; JFSL3; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.

Winner of the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation
Unearths connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in the context of American literature and US slave culture that has largely been ignored until now
Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person’s claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
NYU Press
Condition
New
Series
Sexual Cultures
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814794623
SKU
V9780814794623
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Vincent Woodard
Vincent Woodard (Author) Vincent Woodard (1971–2008) was Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He received his PhD in English from the University of Texas, Austin in 2002. Dwight McBride (Editor) Dwight A. McBride is President of The New School in New York City. Prior to his appointment at The New ... Read more

Reviews for The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture (Sexual Cultures)
We have all read about the hunger of slaves whose masters sought to starve them into submission. ButThe Delectable Negroasks of these slaves: 'How does it feel to be an edible, consumed object?' Inverting the trope of slave hunger, VincentWoodardprovocatively suggests that the slaveholder is a parasite who feeds off the slaves body in acts that range from cannibalistic to ... Read more

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