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The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power: Pan-African Embodiment and Erotic Schemes of Empire
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780253218940 |
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Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
Publication date: | 05/03/2007 |
Pages: | 244 |
Product dimensions: | 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Table of Contents
PrefaceAcknowledgments1. Pan-Africanism or Sexual Imperialism: White Supremacy, Hellenomania, and Discourses of Sexuality2. The Madness of Gender in Plantation America: Sex, Womanhood, and U.S. Chattel Slavery, Revisited3. Sexual Imitation and the Lumpen-Bourgeoisie: Race and Class as Erotic Conflict in E. Franklin Frazier4. Sexual Imitation and the "Little Greedy Caste": Race and Class as Erotic Conflict in Frantz Fanon5. Colonialism and Erotic Desire—in English: The Case of Jamaica Kincaid6. Neo-colonial Canons of Gender and Sexuality, after COINTELPRO: Black Power Bodies/Black Popular Culture and Counter-insurgent Critiques of Sexism and HomophobiaConclusionNotesReferencesIndexWhat People are Saying About This
Thomas offers here one of the most provocative and consequential analyses of empire and sexual politics in recent years. His work provides new ways of conceptualizing sexuality, race, and empire which makes the case for rethinking all of the ways in which these fields are studied. His erudition is vast and the acuity of his analysis, unparalleled.
"Thomas offers here one of the most provocative and consequential analyses of empire and sexual politics in recent years. His work provides new ways of conceptualizing sexuality, race, and empire which makes the case for rethinking all of the ways in which these fields are studied. His erudition is vast and the acuity of his analysis, unparalleled."--(Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor, University of California, Berkeley)
This book is an amazing intervention into a range of related contemporary discourses as it provides important and informed critiques of imperialism. As we witness new formations of empire and sexuality via incidents like Abu Ghraib, it is important to recall these old manifestations of imperialism. This is perhaps the only text now that one can read about pan—Africanist projects and the particular conjunctions of sexuality and colonialism. Greg Thomas, a leading member of a new generation of scholars, advances well the activist intellectual work of the best in the black radical intellectual tradition. This is a scholar whose stunning intellectual energy already challenges, troubles, bothers entrenched, fixed positions as it clearly stimulates new discussions and reverberates in a range of related fields. —Carole Boyce Davies, Professor of Africa