Description: Delectable Negro : Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within Slave Culture, Paperback by Woodard, Vincent; Joyce, Justin A. (EDT); McBride, Dwight A. (EDT); Johnson, E. Patrick (FRW), ISBN 0814794629, ISBN-13 9780814794623, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "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 betweenhomoeroticism, 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"--
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Book Title: Delectable Negro : Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within U.S
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Name: Delectable Negro : Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within Us Slave Culture
Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: American / African American, Sociology / General, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Subjects & Themes / Historical events, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Economics / General, Anthropology / General, United States / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year: 2014
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17.1 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Author: Vincent Woodard
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Sexual Cultures Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
