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Vincent Woodard The Delectable Negro (Hardback) Sexual Cultures. He concludes with an examination of the controversial chain gang oral sex scene in Toni Morrison's Beloved, suggesting that even at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, we are still at a loss for language with which to describe Black male hunger within a plantation culture of consumption. Further DetailsTitle: The Delectable Negro Condition: New Description: 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 their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence. The Delectable Negro explores these connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in the context of American literature and US slave culture. Utilizing many staples of African American literature and culture, such as the slave narratives of Olaudah Equiano, Harriet Jacobs, and Frederick Douglass, as well as other less circulated materials like James L. Smith's slave narrative, runaway slave advertisements, and numerous articles from Black newspapers published in the nineteenth century, Woodard traces the racial assumptions, political aspirations, gender codes, and philosophical frameworks that dictated both European and white American arousal towards Black males and hunger for Black male flesh. Woodard uses these texts to unpack how slaves struggled not only against social consumption, but also against endemic mechanisms of starvation and hunger designed to break them. He concludes with an examination of the controversial chain gang oral sex scene in Toni Morrison's Beloved, suggesting that even at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, we are still at a loss for language with which to describe Black male hunger within a plantation culture of consumption. Author: Vincent Woodard Contributor: Dwight McBride (Edited by), Justin A. Joyce (Edited by), E. Patrick Johnson (Foreword by) EAN: 9780814794616 ISBN: 9780814794616 Publisher: New York University Press Format: Hardback Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Genre: History Subtitle: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within US Slave Culture Release Date: 06/27/2014 Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 153mm Series: Sexual Cultures Topic: Social Sciences, Society & Culture Release Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
