{"product_id":"monstrous-intimacies-1","title":"Monstrous Intimacies","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation have continued to shape black and white subjectivities into the present, Christina Sharpe interprets African diasporic and Black Atlantic visual and literary texts that address those “monstrous intimacies” and their repetition as constitutive of post-slavery subjectivity. Her illuminating readings juxtapose Frederick Douglass’s narrative of witnessing the brutal beating of his Aunt Hester with Essie Mae Washington-Williams’s declaration of freedom in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, as well as the “generational genital fantasies” depicted in Gayl Jones’s novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCorregidora\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e with a firsthand account of such “monstrous intimacies” in the journals of an antebellum South Carolina senator, slaveholder, and vocal critic of miscegenation. Sharpe explores the South African–born writer Bessie Head’s novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMaru\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—about race, power, and liberation in Botswana—in light of the history of the KhoiSan woman Saartje Baartman, who was displayed in Europe as the “Hottentot Venus” in the nineteenth century. Reading Isaac Julien’s film \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Attendant\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Sharpe takes up issues of representation, slavery, and the sadomasochism of everyday black life. Her powerful meditation on intimacy, subjection, and subjectivity culminates in an analysis of Kara Walker’s black silhouettes, and the critiques leveled against both the silhouettes and the artist.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46869545976138,"sku":"9780822346098","price":29.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/5474\/2858\/files\/978-0-8223-4609-8_pr.jpg?v=1687958326","url":"https:\/\/archive-books-berlin.myshopify.com\/products\/monstrous-intimacies-1","provider":"Archive Souq","version":"1.0","type":"link"}