bokomslag Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame
Samhälle & debatt

Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame

Kathryn Bond Stockton

Pocket

489:-

Funktionen begränsas av dina webbläsarinställningar (t.ex. privat läge).

Uppskattad leveranstid 5-10 arbetsdagar

Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249:-

Andra format:

  • 288 sidor
  • 2006
Shame, Kathryn Bond Stockton argues in Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame, has often been a meeting place for the signs black and queer and for black and queer peopleoverlapping groups who have been publicly marked as degraded and debased. But when and why have certain forms of shame been embraced by blacks and queers? How does debasement foster attractions? How is it used for aesthetic delight? What does it offer for projects of sorrow and ways of creative historical knowing? How and why is it central to camp? Stockton engages the domains of African American studies, queer theory, psychoanalysis, film theory, photography, semiotics, and gender studies. She brings together thinkers rarely, if ever, read together in a single studyJames Baldwin, Radclyffe Hall, Jean Genet, Toni Morrison, Robert Mapplethorpe, Eldridge Cleaver, Todd Haynes, Norman Mailer, Leslie Feinberg, David Fincher, and Quentin Tarantinoand reads them with and against major theorists, including Georges Bataille, Sigmund Freud, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes, and Leo Bersani. Stockton asserts that there is no clear, mirrored relation between the terms black and queer; rather, seemingly definitive associations attached to each are often taken up or crossed through by the other. Stockton explores dramatic switchpoints between these terms: the stigmatized skin of some queers clothes, the description of blacks as an economic bottom, the visual force of interracial homosexual rape, the complicated logic of so-called same-sex miscegenation, and the ways in which a famous depiction of slavery (namely, Morrisons Beloved) seems bound up with depictions of AIDS. All of the thinkers Stockton considers scrutinize the social nature of shame as they examine the structures that make debasements possible, bearable, pleasurable, and creative, even in their darkness.
  • Författare: Kathryn Bond Stockton
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780822337966
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 288
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2006-07-01
  • Förlag: Duke University Press