Commerce of Peoples: Sadomasochism and African American Literature by Basu, Biman

Commerce of Peoples: Sadomasochism and African American Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780739167434)

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Commerce of Peoples: Sadomasochism and African American Literature by Basu, Biman

Commerce of Peoples: Sadomasochism and African American Literature

$120.00
Commerce of Peoples: Sadomasochism and African American Literature by Basu, Biman

Commerce of Peoples: Sadomasochism and African American Literature

$120.00
Format: Hardcover
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The Commerce of Peoples introduces a new way of reading. It puts into place a sadomasochistic framework which allows for both diachronic and synchronic analysis. By reading sadomasochistic practice as historical and defining it in terms of practices of embodiment, by alternating between analysis and synthesis, between specific texts and general principles, it provides a new theoretical framework and a new methodology for the analysis of literature and culture.



Author: Biman Basu
ISBN-10: 073916743X
ISBN-13: 9780739167434
Publisher: Lexington Books
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2012
Pages: 206
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.80d
By Biman Basu
By Biman Basu
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Biman Basu is associate professor in the Department of English at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, upstate New York. His research and teaching interests include African American Literature, Globalization, postcolonial and diasporic studies. He has published articles in Callaloo, College Literature, African American Review, Diaspora, Ariel, Public Culture, and other journals.

He is interested in the nexus between power and desire, and he addresses this directly in a course on sadomasochism, "Power, Desire, Literature." More generally, he is interested in what he sees as an emergence of different continental and national styles of sadomasochism, in both the public and private spheres, in both the popular-cultural representations of S&M and its social and political implications.

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