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Explores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic books
Characters like Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Miles Morales, and
Black Lightning are part of a growing cohort of black superheroes
on TV and in film. Though comic books are often derided as naive
and childish, these larger-than-life superheroes demonstrate how
this genre can serve as the catalyst for engaging the Black radical
imagination. Keeping It Unreal: Comics and Black Queer Fantasy is
an exploration of how fantasies of Black power and triumph fashion
theoretical, political, and aesthetic challenges to-and respite
from-white supremacy and anti-Blackness. It examines
representations of Blackness in fantasy-infused genres: superhero
comic books, erotic comics, fantasy and science-fiction genre
literature, as well as contemporary literary "realist" fiction
centering fantastic conceits. Darieck Scott offers a rich
meditation on the relationship between fantasy and reality, and
between the imagination and being, as he weaves his personal
recollections of his encounters with superhero comics with
interpretive readings of figures like the Black Panther and Blade,
as well as theorists such as Frantz Fanon, Eve Sedgwick, Leo
Bersani, Saidiya Hartman, and Gore Vidal. Keeping It Unreal
represents an in-depth theoretical consideration of the
intersections of superhero comics, Blackness, and queerness, and
draws on a variety of fields of inquiry. Reading new life into
Afrofuturist traditions and fantasy genres, Darieck Scott seeks to
rescue the role of fantasy and the fantastic to challenge, revoke,
and expand our assumptions about what is normal, real, and markedly
human.
Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series 2011 Winner of
the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award presented by the Modern Language
Association Challenging the conception of empowerment associated
with the Black Power Movement and its political and intellectual
legacies in the present, Darieck Scott contends that power can be
found not only in martial resistance, but, surprisingly, where the
black body has been inflicted with harm or humiliation. Theorizing
the relation between blackness and abjection by foregrounding often
neglected depictions of the sexual exploitation and humiliation of
men in works by James Weldon Johnson, Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka,
and Samuel R. Delany, Extravagant Abjection asks: If we're
racialized through domination and abjection, what is the political,
personal, and psychological potential in
racialization-through-abjection? Using the figure of male rape as a
lens through which to examine this question, Scott argues that
blackness in relation to abjection endows its inheritors with a
form of counter-intuitive power-indeed, what can be thought of as a
revised notion of black power. This power is found at the point at
which ego, identity, body, race, and nation seem to reveal
themselves as utterly penetrated and compromised, without
defensible boundary. Yet in Extravagant Abjection, "power" assumes
an unexpected and paradoxical form. In arguing that blackness
endows its inheritors with a surprising form of counter-intuitive
power-as a resource for the political present-found at the very
point of violation, Extravagant Abjection enriches our
understanding of the construction of black male identity.
Explores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic books
Characters like Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Miles Morales, and
Black Lightning are part of a growing cohort of black superheroes
on TV and in film. Though comic books are often derided as naive
and childish, these larger-than-life superheroes demonstrate how
this genre can serve as the catalyst for engaging the Black radical
imagination. Keeping It Unreal: Comics and Black Queer Fantasy is
an exploration of how fantasies of Black power and triumph fashion
theoretical, political, and aesthetic challenges to-and respite
from-white supremacy and anti-Blackness. It examines
representations of Blackness in fantasy-infused genres: superhero
comic books, erotic comics, fantasy and science-fiction genre
literature, as well as contemporary literary "realist" fiction
centering fantastic conceits. Darieck Scott offers a rich
meditation on the relationship between fantasy and reality, and
between the imagination and being, as he weaves his personal
recollections of his encounters with superhero comics with
interpretive readings of figures like the Black Panther and Blade,
as well as theorists such as Frantz Fanon, Eve Sedgwick, Leo
Bersani, Saidiya Hartman, and Gore Vidal. Keeping It Unreal
represents an in-depth theoretical consideration of the
intersections of superhero comics, Blackness, and queerness, and
draws on a variety of fields of inquiry. Reading new life into
Afrofuturist traditions and fantasy genres, Darieck Scott seeks to
rescue the role of fantasy and the fantastic to challenge, revoke,
and expand our assumptions about what is normal, real, and markedly
human.
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Phallos (Paperback, Revised)
Samuel R Delany; Contributions by Steven Shaviro, Darieck Scott; Edited by Robert F. Reid-Pharr; Contributions by Kenneth R. James
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R540
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Phallos is a 2004 novel by the acclaimed novelist and critic Samuel
R. Delany. Taking the form of a gay pornographic novella, with the
explicit sex omitted, Phallos is set during the reign of the
second-century Roman emperor Hadrian, and circles around the
historical account of the murder of the emperor's favorite,
Antinous. The story moves from Syracuse to Egypt, from the Pillars
of Hercules to Rome, from Athens to Byzantium, and back. Young
Neoptolomus searches after the stolen phallus of the nameless god
of Hermopolis, crafted of gold and encrusted with jewels, within
which are reputedly the ancient secrets of science and society that
will lead to power, knowledge, and wealth. Vivid and clever, the
original novella has been expanded by nearly a third. Appended to
the text are an afterword by Robert F. Reid-Pharr and three astute
speculative essays by Steven Shaviro, Kenneth R. James, and Darieck
Scott.
Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series 2011 Winner of
the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award presented by the Modern Language
Association Challenging the conception of empowerment associated
with the Black Power Movement and its political and intellectual
legacies in the present, Darieck Scott contends that power can be
found not only in martial resistance, but, surprisingly, where the
black body has been inflicted with harm or humiliation. Theorizing
the relation between blackness and abjection by foregrounding often
neglected depictions of the sexual exploitation and humiliation of
men in works by James Weldon Johnson, Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka,
and Samuel R. Delany, Extravagant Abjection asks: If we're
racialized through domination and abjection, what is the political,
personal, and psychological potential in
racialization-through-abjection? Using the figure of male rape as a
lens through which to examine this question, Scott argues that
blackness in relation to abjection endows its inheritors with a
form of counter-intuitive power-indeed, what can be thought of as a
revised notion of black power. This power is found at the point at
which ego, identity, body, race, and nation seem to reveal
themselves as utterly penetrated and compromised, without
defensible boundary. Yet in Extravagant Abjection, "power" assumes
an unexpected and paradoxical form. In arguing that blackness
endows its inheritors with a surprising form of counter-intuitive
power-as a resource for the political present-found at the very
point of violation, Extravagant Abjection enriches our
understanding of the construction of black male identity.
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