TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carlyle V. Thompson
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1528-3887
TI  - Eating the Black Body
T2  - Miscegenation as Sexual Consumption in African American Literature and Culture
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1102100
N2  - In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation and its aftermath, Carlyle Van Thompson illumines the racialized sexual desire that reduces Black people to commodities for consumption. Eating the Black Body examines the often-sadistic forms of sexual violence during the period of slavery and its aftermath. By looking at one poem and three novels – Richard Wright’s Between the World and Me, John Oliver Killens’ Youngblood, Gayl Jones’ Corregidora, and Octavia Butler’s Kindred – that examine slavery and the Jim Crow period, Thompson investigates a wide variety of Black bodies as sites of miscegenation and sexual desire. Thompson also examines a horrific case of White male police brutality in New York City in which a Black man was sodomized. Bold and persuasively argued, Eating the Black Body will engage readers in a broad range of literary, historical, and cultural studies.
KW  - USA, Literatur, Sexueller Missbrauch (Motiv), Schwarze, miscegenation, sexual violence, lynching, consumption, Geschichte 1945-1991, American literature
LA  - English
ER  -