Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame
When Black Meets Queer

 

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Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame
When Black Meets Queer

by Kathryn Bond Stockton (Author)

 

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ISBN: 9780822337966

 

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An investigation of the role of shame in mediating between the signs "black" and "queer." The author explores dramatic switch points between these terms, with reference to such matters as the stigmatized "skin" of some queers' clothes and the visual power of interracial homosexual rape.


Stockton asserts that there is no clear, mirrored relation between the terms "black" and "queer"; rather, seemingly definitive associations attached to each are often taken up or crossed through by the other. Stockton explores dramatic switch points between these terms, with reference to such matters as the stigmatized "skin" of some queers' clothes and the visual power of interracial homosexual rape. All of the thinkers Stockton considers scrutinize the social nature of shame, as they plumb the structures that make debasements possible, bearable, pleasurable, and creative, even in their darkness.


 

ISBN 822337967
ISBN13 9780822337966
Publisher Duke University Press
Format Paperback
Publication date 25/08/2006
Pages 280
Weight (grammes) 399
Published in United States
Height (mm) 236
Width (mm) 153

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