{"product_id":"monstrous-intimacies-making-post-slavery-subjects-paperback","title":"Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristina Sharpe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation have continued to shape black and white subjectivities into the present, Christina Sharpe interprets African diasporic and Black Atlantic visual and literary texts that address those \"monstrous intimacies\" and their repetition as constitutive of post-slavery subjectivity. Her illuminating readings juxtapose Frederick Douglass's narrative of witnessing the brutal beating of his Aunt Hester with Essie Mae Washington-Williams's declaration of freedom in \u003ci\u003eDear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the \"generational genital fantasies\" depicted in Gayl Jones's novel \u003ci\u003eCorregidora\u003c\/i\u003e with a firsthand account of such \"monstrous intimacies\" in the journals of an antebellum South Carolina senator, slaveholder, and vocal critic of miscegenation. Sharpe explores the South African-born writer Bessie Head's novel \u003ci\u003eMaru\u003c\/i\u003e--about race, power, and liberation in Botswana--in light of the history of the KhoiSan woman Saartje Baartman, who was displayed in Europe as the \"Hottentot Venus\" in the nineteenth century. Reading Isaac Julien's film \u003ci\u003eThe Attendant\u003c\/i\u003e, Sharpe takes up issues of representation, slavery, and the sadomasochism of everyday black life. Her powerful meditation on intimacy, subjection, and subjectivity culminates in an analysis of Kara Walker's black silhouettes, and the critiques leveled against both the silhouettes and the artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMonstrous Intimacies\" is a remarkable study, lucid, engaging, and thoroughly engrossing.\"--Sharon Patricia Holland, author of \"Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristina Sharpe is Associate Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Tufts University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 07, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47571107512541,"sku":"9780822346098","price":54.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/L3JVVWJhUXZlSnFpZnBOWWRIa1ZYZz09.webp?v=1773368002","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/monstrous-intimacies-making-post-slavery-subjects-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}