{"product_id":"eating-the-black-body-carlyle-v-thompson-9780820479316","title":"Eating the Black Body: Miscegenation as Sexual Consumption in African American Literature and Culture","description":"In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation and its aftermath, Carlyle Van Thompson illumines the racialized sexual desire that reduces Black people to commodities for consumption. \u003ci\u003eEating the Black Body\u003c\/i\u003e examines the often-sadistic forms of sexual violence during the period of slavery and its aftermath. By looking at one poem and three novels - Richard Wright's \u003ci\u003eBetween the World and Me\u003c\/i\u003e, John Oliver Killens' \u003ci\u003eYoungblood, \u003c\/i\u003e Gayl Jones' \u003ci\u003eCorregidora, \u003c\/i\u003e and Octavia Butler's \u003ci\u003eKindred\u003c\/i\u003e - that examine slavery and the Jim Crow period, Thompson investigates a wide variety of Black bodies as sites of miscegenation and sexual desire. Thompson also examines a horrific case of White male police brutality in New York City in which a Black man was sodomized. Bold and persuasively argued, \u003ci\u003eEating the Black Body\u003c\/i\u003e will engage readers in a broad range of literary, historical, and cultural studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carlyle V. Thompson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820479314\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820479316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/27\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 231\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d","brand":"Carlyle V. Thompson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46838266986751,"sku":"9780820479316","price":42.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_df09bc94-b066-4ce0-a282-e6ed92bb104c.jpg?v=1746589305","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/eating-the-black-body-carlyle-v-thompson-9780820479316","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}