{"product_id":"anti-blackness-and-human-monstrosity-in-jerry-rafiki-jenkins-9780814259054","title":"Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction","description":"In \u003ci\u003eAnti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction, \u003c\/i\u003e Jerry Rafiki Jenkins examines four types of human monsters that frequently appear in Black American horror fiction-the monsters of White rage, respectability, not-ness, and serial killing. Arguing that such monsters represent specific ideologies of American anti-Blackness, Jenkins shows that despite their various motivations for harming and killing Black people, these monsters embody the horrors that emerge when \u003ci\u003eBlack American\u003c\/i\u003e is disassociated from \u003ci\u003eAmerican\u003c\/i\u003e. Although these monsters of anti-Blackness are dangerous because they can terrorize Black people with virtual impunity, their \"anti-Black sadism,\" as Jenkins calls it, is what makes them repulsive. Jenkins examines a variety of these monstrous forms in Tananarive Due's \u003ci\u003eThe Between, \u003c\/i\u003e Victor LaValle's \u003ci\u003eThe Changeling, \u003c\/i\u003e Octavia Butler's \u003ci\u003eKindred, \u003c\/i\u003e Nnedi Okorafor's \u003ci\u003eWho Fears Death, \u003c\/i\u003e and many other works. While these monsters and the texts that they populate ask us to think about the role that anti-Blackness plays in being or becoming American, they also offer intellectual resources that Black and non-Black people might use to combat the everyday versions of human monstrosity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jerry Rafiki Jenkins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814259057\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814259054\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d","brand":"Jerry Rafiki Jenkins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45180609593599,"sku":"9780814259054","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8214e54e-8b8f-4e4a-86a6-9b016d08720f.jpg?v=1712898250","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/anti-blackness-and-human-monstrosity-in-jerry-rafiki-jenkins-9780814259054","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}