Funk. It is multisensory and multidimensional philosophy used in
conjunction with the erotic, eroticism, and black erotica. It is
the affect that shapes film, performance, sound, food, technology,
drugs, energy, time, and the seeds of revolutionary ideas for black
movements. But funk is also an experience to feel, to hear, to
touch and taste, and in Funk the Erotic, L. H. Stallings uses funk
in all its iterations as an innovation in black studies. Stallings
uses funk to highlight the importance of the erotic and eroticism
in Black cultural and political movements, debunking "the truth of
sex" and its histories. Brandishing funk as a theoretical tool,
Stallings argues that Western theories of the erotic fail as
universally applicable terms or philosophies, and thus lack utility
in discussions of black bodies, subjects, and culture. In
considering the Victorian concept of freak in black funk, Stallings
proposes that black artists across all media have fashioned a
tradition that embraces the superfreak, sexual guerrilla, sexual
magic, mama's porn, black trans narratives, and sex work in a
post-human subject position. Their goal: to ensure survival and
evolution in a world that exploits black bodies in capitalist
endeavors, imperialism, and colonization. Revitalizing and
wide-ranging, Funk the Erotic offers a needed examination of black
sexual cultures, a discursive evolution of black ideas about
eroticism, a critique of work society, a reexamination of love, and
an articulation of the body in black movements.
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