Description: The Delectable Negro by Vincent Woodard, Dwight McBride, Justin A. Joyce, E. Patrick Johnson Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Takes the enslaved persons 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. Publisher Description Winner of the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary FoundationUnearths connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in the context of American literature and US slave culture that has largely been ignored until nowScholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved persons 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. Smiths 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 Morrisons 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. Author Biography Vincent Woodard (Author) Vincent Woodard (1971–2008) was Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He received his PhD in English from the University of Texas, Austin in 2002.Dwight McBride (Editor) Dwight A. McBride is President of The New School in New York City. Prior to his appointment at The New School, Dr. McBride was Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at Emory University, where he also held the position of Asa Griggs Candler Professor of African American Studies, Distinguished Affiliated Professor of English, and Associated Faculty in Womens, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. A leading scholar of race and literary studies, Dr. McBrides books include James Baldwin Now, Impossible Witnesses: Truth Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony, Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction, and A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader. His book Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Studies and was a finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award.Justin A. Joyce (Editor) Justin A. Joyce is Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University. He holds a PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is coeditor of A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader.E. Patrick Johnson (Foreword by) E. Patrick Johnson is the Carlos Montezuma Professor of African American & Performance Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of two award-winning books, Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity (2003) and Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History (2008). Most recently, he is also the author of Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women (2019), and Black. Queer. Southern. Women--An Oral History (2019). Details ISBN 0814794610 ISBN-13 9780814794616 Title The Delectable Negro Author Vincent Woodard, Dwight McBride, Justin A. Joyce, E. Patrick Johnson Format Hardcover Year 2014 Pages 320 Publisher New York University Press GE_Item_ID:161716256; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! 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ISBN-13: 9780814794616
Book Title: The Delectable Negro
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Delectable Negro : Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within Us Slave Culture
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 1.1 in
Subject: American / African American, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Sociology / General, Subjects & Themes / Historical events, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Economics / General, Anthropology / General, United States / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Item Weight: 22 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Vincent Woodard
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Series: Sexual Cultures Ser.
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
