Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer”

Kathryn Bond Stockton

Published by Duke University Press 2006

Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame

Where “Black” Meets “Queer”

Kathryn Bond Stockton
Edited by: Michèle Aina Barale , Jonathan Goldberg , Michael Moon and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

In the series Series Q

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822387985

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About this book

The relationship between black queer subjects and debasement as portrayed within popular culture texts and films.

Author / Editor information

Kathryn Bond Stockton is Professor of English and Director of Gender Studies at the University of Utah. She is the author of God Between Their Lips: Desire Between Women in Irigaray, Brontë, and Eliot.

Reviews

“Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame is an exciting, pointed, splendidly written, culturally important book.”—Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, author of Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1 INTRODUCTION. Embracing Shame: ‘‘Black’’ and ‘‘Queer’’ in Debasement. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
ONE. Cloth Wounds, or When Queers Are Martyred to Clothes: Debasements of a Fabricated Skin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
TWO. Bottom Values: Anal Economics in the History of Black Neighborhoods Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
THREE. When Are Dirty Details and Scenes Compelling? Tucked in the Cuts of Interracial Anal Rape Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
FOUR. Erotic Corpse: Homosexual Miscegenation and the Decomposition of Attraction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
FIVE. Prophylactics and Brains: Slavery in the Cybernetic Age of AIDS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
CONCLUSION. Dark Camp: Behind and Ahead Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 284
Illustrations
- Other: 16 b&w photos

eBook

Published: July 19, 2006
ISBN: 9780822387985