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082 0 4 _a306.362
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aWoodard, Vincent
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Delectable Negro :
_bHuman Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture /
_cVincent Woodard; ed. by Dwight McBride, Justin A. Joyce.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bNew York University Press,
_c[2014]
264 4 _c©2014
300 _a1 online resource
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490 0 _aSexual Cultures ;
_v34
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aWinner of the 2015 LGBT Studies award presented by the Lambda Literary FoundationScholarsof US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations thatBlack Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslavedperson's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literalstarvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of theslaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacksexperienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence. TheDelectable Negro explores these connections between homoeroticism,cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in the context of American literatureand US slave culture. Utilizing many staples of African American literature and culture, suchas the slave narratives of OlaudahEquiano, Harriet Jacobs, and Frederick Douglass, as well as other lesscirculated materials like James L. Smith's slave narrative, runaway slaveadvertisements, and numerous articles from Black newspapers published in thenineteenth century, Woodard traces the racial assumptions, politicalaspirations, gender codes, and philosophical frameworks that dictated both Europeanand white American arousal towards Black males and hunger for Black male flesh.Woodard uses these texts to unpack how slaves struggled not only againstsocial consumption, but also against endemic mechanisms of starvation andhunger designed to break them. He concludes with an examination of thecontroversial chain gang oral sex scene in Toni Morrison's Beloved,suggesting that even at the end of the twentieth and beginning of thetwenty-first century, we are still at a loss for language with which todescribe Black male hunger within a plantation culture of consumption.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 0 _aAfrican American men in literature.
650 0 _aAfrican American men
_zSouthern States
_xSocial conditions.
650 0 _aAmerican literature
_xAfrican American authors
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aCannibalism
_xSocial aspects
_zSouthern States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aConsumption (Economics)
_xSocial aspects
_zSouthern States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aEnslaved persons
_zSouthern States
_xSocial conditions.
650 0 _aIngestion
_xSocial aspects
_zSouthern States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aMale homosexuality
_xSocial aspects
_zSouthern States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aPlantation life
_zSouthern States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aSlaveholders
_xSexual behavior
_zSouthern States.
650 0 _aSlavery in literature.
650 0 _aStarvation
_xSocial aspects
_zSouthern States
_xHistory.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies).
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700 1 _aJohnson, E. Patrick
_eautore
700 1 _aJoyce, Justin A.
_ecuratore
700 1 _aMcBride, Dwight
_ecuratore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479815807
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