Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame : When Black Meets Queer

K. Stockton

Shame, Kathryn Bond Stockton argues in "Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame", has often been a meeting-place for the signs 'black' and 'queer' and for black and queer people - overlapping groups who have been so publicly marked as degraded and debased. But when and why have certain forms of shame been embraced by blacks and queers? How does debasement foster attractions? How is it used for aesthetic delight? What does it offer for projects of sorrow and ways of creative historical knowing? How and why is it central to camp? Stockton engages the domains of African American studies, queer theory, psychoanalysis, film theory, photography, semiotics, and gender studies. She brings together thinkers rarely, if ever, read together in a single study - James Baldwin, Radclyffe Hall, Jean Genet, Toni Morrison, Robert Mapplethorpe, Eldridge Cleaver, Todd Haynes, Norman Mailer, and Quentin Tarantino - and reads them with and against major theorists, including Georges Bataille, Sigmund Freud, Eve Sedgwick, Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes, and Leo Bersani. 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 switchpoints 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.

specificaties
  • Boek
  • Engels
  • Duke University Press
  • xi, 271 p: ill

praktische informatie

ISBN Nummer
0822337967
Boekcode
IHLIA Homodok cat. (stock/bea) b # ODE6 niet uitleenbaar
Taal publicatie
eng [Engels]
Hoofdtitel
Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame : When Black Meets Queer
Algemene materiaalaanduiding
2 [Boek]
Eerste verantwoordelijke
Kathryn Bond Stockton
Plaats van uitgave
Durham, NC [etc.]
Uitgever
Duke University Press
Jaar van uitgave
cop. 2006
Pagina's
xi, 271 p
Collatie - Illustraties
ill
Serietitel
Series Q
Auteur Achternaam
Stockton
Auteur Voornaam
K.
Prod country
usa
Editie
2nd. printing
Samenvatting - Tekst
Shame, Kathryn Bond Stockton argues in "Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame", has often been a meeting-place for the signs 'black' and 'queer' and for black and queer people - overlapping groups who have been so publicly marked as degraded and debased. But when and why have certain forms of shame been embraced by blacks and queers? How does debasement foster attractions? How is it used for aesthetic delight? What does it offer for projects of sorrow and ways of creative historical knowing? How and why is it central to camp? Stockton engages the domains of African American studies, queer theory, psychoanalysis, film theory, photography, semiotics, and gender studies. She brings together thinkers rarely, if ever, read together in a single study - James Baldwin, Radclyffe Hall, Jean Genet, Toni Morrison, Robert Mapplethorpe, Eldridge Cleaver, Todd Haynes, Norman Mailer, and Quentin Tarantino - and reads them with and against major theorists, including Georges Bataille, Sigmund Freud, Eve Sedgwick, Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes, and Leo Bersani. 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 switchpoints 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.
Opmerkingen - Tekst
Bibliogr.: p. 257-264, Vindplaats recensie: GLQ, 15 (2009) 3, p. 499-512

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