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Extravagant abjection

blackness, power, and sexuality in the African American literary imagination

by Darieck Scott

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

First published
2010

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  • Print327 pages · ISBN 9780814740941

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