The Black Body in Ecstasy

Reading Race, Reading Pornography

By:

Jennifer C Nash

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

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In The Black Body in Ecstasy, Jennifer C. Nash rewrites black feminism's theory of representation. Her analysis moves beyond black feminism's preoccupation with injury and recovery to consider how racial fictions can create a space of agency and even pleasure for black female subjects. Nash's innovative readings of hardcore pornographic films from the 1970s and 1980s develop a new method of analyzing racialized pornography that focuses on black women's pleasures in blackness: delights in toying with and subverting blackness, moments of racialized excitement, deliberate enactments of hyperbolic blackness, and humorous performances of blackness that poke fun at the fantastical project of race. Drawing on feminist and queer theory, critical race theory, and media studies, Nash creates a new black feminist interpretative practice, one attentive to the messy contradictions—between delight and discomfort, between desire and degradation—at the heart of black pleasures.

Author Biography:

Jennifer C. Nash is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Women's Studies at George Washington University.

Release date NZ

March 14th, 2014

Author

Jennifer C Nash

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

40 photographs

Pages

240

Series

Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

Dimensions

3895x5830x25

ISBN-13

9780822356059

Product ID

21641469

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