ISBN:
9781479815807
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressourcece.
Series Statement:
Sexual cultures
DDC:
394.90975
Keywords:
Literatur
;
Sklaverei
;
Kannibalismus
;
Homosexualität
;
Soziale Situation
;
Afroamerikanismus
;
Slaves Social conditions
;
African American men Social conditions
;
Male homosexuality Social aspects
;
History
;
Plantation life History
;
Cannibalism Social aspects
;
History
;
Slaveholders Sexual behavior
;
Ingestion Social aspects
;
History
;
Slavery in literature
;
African American men in literature
;
American literature African American authors
;
History and criticism
;
USA
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.18574/nyu/9780814794616.001.0001
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814794616.001.0001