ISBN:
1479815802
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147984926X
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9781479815807
,
9781479849260
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Series Statement:
Sexual cultures
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Woodard, Vincent, 1971-2008 Delectable Negro
DDC:
394/.90975
Keywords:
Slaves Social conditions
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African American men Social conditions
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Plantation life History
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Starvation Social aspects
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History
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Cannibalism Social aspects
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History
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Consumption (Economics) Social aspects
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History
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Male homosexuality Social aspects
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History
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Slavery in literature
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African American men in literature
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American literature African American authors
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History and criticism
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gay Studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; African American Studies
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African American men in literature
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African American men ; Social conditions
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American literature ; African American authors
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Consumption (Economics) ; Social aspects
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Male homosexuality ; Social aspects
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Plantation life
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Slavery in literature
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Slaves ; Social conditions
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Starvation ; Social aspects
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Afroamerikanismus
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Soziale Situation
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Homosexualität
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Kannibalismus
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Sklaverei
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Literatur
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HISTORY ; Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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History
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Southern States
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USA
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Electronic books
Abstract:
"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"--
Abstract:
1Cannibalism in Transatlantic Context29 --2Sex, Honor, and Human Consumption59 --3A Tale of Hunger Retold: Ravishment and Hunger in F. Douglass's Life and Writing95 --4Domestic Rituals of Consumption127 --5Eating Nat Turner171 --6The Hungry Nigger269.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
