Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination

Challenging the conception of empowerment associated with the Black Power Movement and its political and intellectual legacies in the present, Darieck Scott contends that power can be found not only in martial resistance, but, surprisingly, where the black body has been inflicted with harm or humiliation.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Scott, Darieck
Published: 07/12/2010
Publisher: New York University Press
ISBN: 9780814740941
Pages: 317
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.80w x 1.00d